Diagnostic Cultures: A Cultural Approach to the Pathologization of Modern Life

ISBN-13: 9780367596880 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 154 str.

Svend Brinkmann

Opis

Drawing on new empirical case studies of psychological diagnoses, including depression and ADHD, and employing both cultural-psychological and sociological analyses, Diagnostic Cultures charts the development of contemporary diagnostic cultures and asks whether, in transforming existential, moral and political concerns into individual psychiat

Recenzje

"A captivating analysis of the ways that use of medical diagnoses to categorize human behavior has altered our inner experience and our everyday social lives." - Donald R. Marks and Larissa Redziniak in PsycCRITIQUES (2016)

Spis treści

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Introducing the Concept of Diagnostic Cultures

2. Psychiatric Diagnoses as Epistemic Objects

3. Languages of Suffering

4. Psychiatric Diagnoses as Semiotic Mediators

5. "Do More, Feel Better, Live Longer": Being a Psychiatric Subject

6. Interpreting the Epidemics

7. Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Mental Disorder

8. General Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Svend Brinkmann is Professor of Psychology and Qualitative Methods and Co-director of the Center for Qualitative Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the author of Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Life: Working with Everyday Life Materials, Qualitative Interviewing and Psychology as a Moral Science: Perspectives on Normativity, and the co-author of InterViews (Third Edition): Learning the Craft of Qualitative Research Interviewing.