The Mind and its Discontents : An Essay in Discursive Psychiatry

ISBN-13: 9780198523130 / Angielski

Grant R. Gillett

Opis

The author argues that to understand mental illness fully requires more than a study of biological models of mental processes and pathologies. As intensely social animals, he stresses, we need to look for the causes of human mental disorders in our interactions with others; in social rule-following and its role in the organization of mental content; in the power relations embedded within social structures and cultural norms; in the way that our mental life is inscribed by a cumulative life of encounters with others.