Personality and Dangerousness: Genealogies of Antisocial Personality Disorder

ISBN-13: 9780521804028 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 204 str.

David McCallum; D. McCallum

Opis

Tracing the history of the category of antisocial personality disorder, this study reveals its emergence is linked to particular kinds of governing, rather than simply to advances in the human sciences or a means of social control. David McCallum examines key legal and institutional developments in Australia, the U.K, and the U.S. as well as parallel developments within psychiatry and psychological medicine. Applying a social theoretical analysis to this material, he challenges our assumptions about the formation and control concepts of dangerousness and personality.

Recenzje

'McCallum has painstakingly assembled a rich collection of quotations from psychiatrists, neurologists and medical superintendents.' Psychological Medicine

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Law, psychiatry and the problem of disorder; 2. Histories of psychiatry and the asylum; 3. The borderland patient; 4. Counting, eugenics, mental hygiene; 5. The space for personality; 6. Surfaces of emergence; 7. Personality and dangerousness.