Theater of Disorder
Patients, Doctors and the Construction of Illness
Seiten
2001
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-514087-3 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-514087-3 (ISBN)
Some phenomena such as hypnosis, hysteria, multiple personality disorder, recovered memory syndrome, and culture-specific disorders are difficult to explain completely. The purpose of this volume is to apply a model of social relations to these phenomena in order to provide an explanation for them.
There are certain phenomena, such as hypnosis, hysteria, multiple personality disorder, recovered memory syndrome, claims of satanic ritual abuse, alien abduction syndrome, and culture-specific disorders that, although common, are difficult to explain completely. The purpose of this volume is to apply a model of social relations to these phenomena in order to provide a different explanation for them. Wenegrat argues that they are socially-constructed illness roles or purposive behavior patterns into which patients fall while receiving either unintentional or intentional cues during interactions with caretakers and authority figures. The application of the social-relations model raises some important, yet previously overlooked, questions about these phenomena, illustrates some important aspects of human nature and consciousness, places illness behaviors in their larger, cultural context, and shows the way to a new and different view of mental life.
There are certain phenomena, such as hypnosis, hysteria, multiple personality disorder, recovered memory syndrome, claims of satanic ritual abuse, alien abduction syndrome, and culture-specific disorders that, although common, are difficult to explain completely. The purpose of this volume is to apply a model of social relations to these phenomena in order to provide a different explanation for them. Wenegrat argues that they are socially-constructed illness roles or purposive behavior patterns into which patients fall while receiving either unintentional or intentional cues during interactions with caretakers and authority figures. The application of the social-relations model raises some important, yet previously overlooked, questions about these phenomena, illustrates some important aspects of human nature and consciousness, places illness behaviors in their larger, cultural context, and shows the way to a new and different view of mental life.
Bruce Wenegrat is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine and Assistant Chief of Psychiatric Consultation Services at Veterans' Medical Center in Palo Alto, California.
1. The Theater of Disorder ; 2. Basic Research and Observations ; 3. Anthropological and Historical Studies ; 4. Playing the Hypnotic Game ; 5. Hysteria and Hysteria-like Disorders ; 6. Multiple Personality Disorders ; 7. Recovered Memory Roles ; 8. Self-Knowledge, the Unconscious, and the Future of Illness Roles ; NOTES ; INDEX
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 25.10.2001 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 145 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 567 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie | |
| Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Anamnese / Körperliche Untersuchung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-514087-7 / 0195140877 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-514087-3 / 9780195140873 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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