Thomas J. Scheff

Being Mentally Ill

A Sociological Study

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In incorporating social process into a model of the dynamics of mental disorders, this text questions the individualistic model favoured in current psychiatric and psychoanalytic theory

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Aldine de Gruyter / Routledge
• 3. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9780202305868
• ISBN-10: 0202305864
• Artikelnr.: 21482917

Autorenporträt

Thomas J. Scheff

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction: labelling theory and biopsychiatry -reviewing the record
individual and social systems in deviance. Part 2 Theory: social control as a system
residual deviance
the social institution of insanity. Part 3 Research: decisions in medicine
two studies of the societal reaction
negotiating reality - notes on power in the assessment of responsibility.