Svend Brinkmann

Diagnostic Cultures

A Cultural Approach to the Pathologization of Modern Life

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 psychiatric disorders, we risk losing sight of the larger historical and social forces that affect our lives. A ground-breaking examination of the shift towards the pathologization of suffering and the dangers that this presents to human self-understanding, Diagnostic Cultures will be of interest to scholars of social theory and philosophy, the sociology of culture, psychology and the sociology health and medicine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9781472413192
• ISBN-10: 1472413199
• Artikelnr.: 44943185

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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

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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

Rezensionen

"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)