Angela Woods

The Sublime Object of Psychiatry: Schizophrenia in Clinical and Cultural Theory

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Produktbeschreibung

Schizophrenia has been one of psychiatry's most contested diagnostic categories. The Sublime object of Psychiatry studies representations of schizophrenia across a wide range of disciplines and discourses: biological and phenomenological psychiatry, psychoanalysis, critical psychology, antipsychiatry, and postmodern philosophy.

Produktdetails

• International Perspectives in
• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780199583959
• ISBN-10: 0199583951
• Artikelnr.: 33723055

Autorenporträt

Angela Woods is a Lecturer in Medical Humanities at Durham University. She is an interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of cultural theory, literary studies, and philosophy. Her research interests include the study of theoretical and subjective accounts of psychotic experience, narrative identity, and the role of narrative in the medical humanities.

Inhaltsangabe

Clinical Theory
1: Psychiatry on schizophrenia: clinical pictures of a sublime object
2: Schizophrenia: the sublime text of psychoanalysis
Cultural Theory
3: Antipsychiatry: schizophrenic experience and the sublime
4: Anti-Oedipus and the politics of the schizophrenic sublime
5: Schizophrenia, modernity, postmodernity
6: Postmodern schizophrenia
7: Glamorama, postmodernity and the schizophrenic sublime
Conclusion