Patient tales : case histories and the uses of narrative in psychiatry /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [2008] |
| Series: | Studies in rhetoric/communication.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Series Editor's Preface
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Case Histories and Narrative Knowledge in Psychiatry
- Part 1. The Asylum Age
- 1. Case Histories in the Hospital and the Medical Journal in Enlightenment Scotland
- 2. In His Own Words: Using a Patient's Utterances to Document an "Unsound Mind"
- 3. Capturing Insanity: The Wedding of Photography and Physiognomy in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Medical Journal Article
- 4. Asylum Notes: The Historical Antecedents of Psychiatry's Case Histories
- 5. The Freudian Hiatus: Psychoanalysis and Narrative in Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria
- Part 2. The Era of Biomedicine
- 6. Case Histories and the Transformation of American Psychiatry: Near Demise of a Genre during the Rise of a "Scientific" Classification System
- 7. Psychotherapist as Author: Case Reports, Classification, and Categorization (with Doris Ravotas)
- 8. In Retrospect: A Case for Historical Narrative Inquiry
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author