Diagnosing madness : the discursive construction of the psychiatric patient, 1850-1920

"Diagnosing Madness is a study of the linguistic negotiations at the heart of mental illness identification and patient diagnosis. Through an examination of individual psychiatric case records from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Cristina Hanganu-Bresch and Carol Berkenkotter...

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Auteur principal : Hanganu-Bresch Cristina (Auteur)
Autres auteurs : Berkenkotter Carol (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Diagnosing madness : the discursive construction of the psychiatric patient, 1850-1920 / Cristina Hanganu-Bresch & Carol Berkenkotter
Publié : Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press , [2019]
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xii, 180 p.)s
Collection : Studies in rhetoric and communication
Contenu : Preface. Introduction: Diagnosing madness : imagining the psychiatric patient, 1850-1920. The patient as a psychiatric and legal subject in nineteenth-century America : between norm and normal. Wrongful confinement in late nineteenth-century fiction : sensation, fact, public fear, and compound rhetorical situations. From admissions records to case notes : the illocutionary power of occult genres. Narrative survival : personal and institutional accounts of asylum confinement. Symptoms in search of a concept : a case study in psychiatric enregisterment. Conclusion. Appendix 1: Henrietta Unwin's medical certificates and case note excerpts from her 1866 and 1867 Ticehurst hospitalizations. Appendix 2: List of Baldwin's hospitalizations at Ticehurst
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