Worlds of Psychotic People

Wanderers, 'Bricoleurs' and Strategists

Els Van Dongen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2013
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-65480-7 (ISBN)

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Worlds of Psychotic People brings a fresh twenty-first century voice to the lives of those with serious psychological disorders, focusing on the manner in which psychiatric patients experience their subjective worlds. Based on ethnographic research gathered at the psychiatric hospital of Saint Anthony's in the Netherlands over a period of five years, it seeks to describe from the perspective of the mental patient some of the fears and hopes that mark an individual's encounter with the fixed reality-structures of a clinical mental ward.

Els van Dongen

Acknowledgements, 1 Introduction, 2 The quest for reality and the work with culture: when psychiatrists and anthropologists explore psychosis, 3 Shaping the context of the speech events: models of therapists and patients 4 Hope and hopelessness, healthy and sick parts, 5 Hiding in talk, 6 Revealing in talk, 7 Living in two worlds, 8 The precarious world of psychotic people, 9 Life and death, 10 Conclusion: psychotic discourse revisited, Notes, References, Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.3.2013
Reihe/Serie	Theory and Practice in Medical Anthropology
Zusatzinfo	2 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychosen
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-415-65480-7 / 0415654807
ISBN-13	978-0-415-65480-7 / 9780415654807
Zustand	Neuware