The social constructions and experiences of madness / / edited by Monika dos Santos and Jean-François Pelletier.

Over the course of the centuries the meanings around mental illness have shifted many times according to societal beliefs and the political atmosphere of the day. The way madness is defined has far reaching effects on those who have a mental disorder, and determines how they are treated by the profe...

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Superior document:At the interface / Probing the boundaries, v. 96
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2018]
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries 96.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 172 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Monika dos Santos and Jean-François Pelletier
  • Madness: A Revolutionary Rear-Guard / Oisín Wall
  • ‘You can’t label it and there’s no umbrella’: The Consumer Movement and the Social Construction of Mental Illness / Kara Holmes and Fiona Ann Papps
  • Psychology’s Madness: Solipsistic Denial of Relational Dependency / David Lewis Wilson and Monika dos Santos
  • Has Autism Changed? / Simon Cushing
  • Creativity and ‘Madness’: Myths, Constructions and Realities / Jonathan Appel , Dohee Kim-Appel , Erin Snapp , Claire Whiteman , Mary Cassidy and Rebecca Stanic
  • The Lived Experience of Mental Health Issues as a Constructive Asset for Redefining and Measuring Citizenship: A Social Enterprise / Jean-François Pelletier
  • The Experience of Things: Memory, Photographic Representation and Emotions in Psychiatric Field Research / Carlo Orefice.