E Deidre Pribram

A Cultural Approach to Emotional Disorders

Psychological and Aesthetic Interpretations

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Produktbeschreibung

In her latest contribution to the growing field of emotion studies, Deidre Pribram makes a compelling argument for why culturalist approaches to the study of emotional "disorders" continue to be eschewed, even as the sociocultural and historical study of mental illness flourishes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781138018297
• ISBN-10: 1138018295
• Artikelnr.: 42739682

Autorenporträt

E. Deidre Pribram is, most recently, the author of A Cultural Approach to Emotional Disorders: Psychological and Aesthetic Interpretations and Emotions, Genre, Justice in Film and Television: Detecting Feeling, as well as co-editor of Emotions: A Cultural Studies Reader. She writes on cultural emotion studies, media studies, gender, and popular culture. She is Professor in the Communications Department of Molloy College, Long Island, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Madness and Mental Illness 2. The Psychological Self 3. The
Artist as Mad Genius 4. Personality Disorders, Biopsychiatry, and the
Problem of Social Identity 5. Neuroscience and Other Narratives of
Emotional Disorders