Doctors and Healers

ISBN-13: 9781509521869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 220 str.

Isabelle Stengers

Opis

We think we know what healers do: they build on patients' irrational beliefs and treat them in a 'symbolic' way. If they get results, it's thanks to their capacity to listen, rather than any influence on a clinical level.

Recenzje

"The translation of this collaboration between two leading European thinkers about psychopathology and therapeutic process gives us access to a challenging way of thinking about the relation between health and the holy, medicine and the sacred, science and religion, rationality and irrationality, psychotherapy and psychopharmacology - all in a way that will be of immediate value for those concerned with psychiatric anthropology, cultural psychiatry and global mental health." Thomas Csordas, University of California San Diego

Spis treści

Contents Editor s Note 1. Towards a Scientific Psychopathology – Tobie Nathan I. The Benefits of Folk Therapy Scientific Therapy and Folk Therapy Solitude Diagnostics or Divination Statistical Categories vs. Real Cultural Groups The Construction of Truth Risky Psychopathology A Clinical Illustration Continuation of the Consultation II. Medicines in Non–Western Cultures Prolegomena on Thought and Belief The Idea of the Symbol The White Man s Medicines Thought is in Objects Concepts of the Savage Mind Active Objects In Conclusion 2. The Doctor and the Charlatan – Isabelle Stengers Recovering for the Wrong Reasons The Power of Experimentation Who defines the causes? A Practical Challenge 3. Users: Lobbies or Political Creativity? – Isabelle Stengers Is another kind of medicine possible? Disease mongering A machine Condemnation? Hands Off! 4. Doctors, Healers, Therapists, the Sick, Patients, Subjects, UsersÉ– Tobie Nathan Therapist The Sick Patients Subjects Users Pharmaka Notes

O autorze

Tobie Nathan is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the Université Paris–VIII.

Isabelle Stengers is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.