A Cultural Approach to Emotional Disorders: Psychological and Aesthetic Interpretations

ISBN-13: 9781138599536 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 170 str.

E. Deidre Pribram

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.