In this account, I will examine the argument that psychiatric diagnoses are a social construction, leading to the adoption of the term madness, rather than mental illness, within critical psychological debates, followed by a critique of the regulatory power of bio-psychiatry in the definition and treatment of madness
There is debate over what the proper scope of psychiatry is and what the nature of the conditions it...
<p>My proposal calls for a new discipline in the humanities to study madness. Mental illness is dif...
Madness is a major disorder of social ties and a universal problem for all societies. The formation ...
For as long as the human intellect has been documented, individuals have maintained curiosity toward...
Societies relate to madness in accordance with their dominant concepts about the world. Modern rati...
Introduction: In January 2014, professor Peter Gøtzsche, head of the independent Cochrane Center, ra...
This article makes the case for “social justice” in relation to the conceptions of “madness” that cu...
Are hallucinations and delusions really symptoms of an illness called 'schizophrenia'? Are mental he...
The relative explanatory power of psychiatric and social variables in the decision to hospitalize an...
Luhmann defined social systems as structured around specific social codes, and comprised of the comm...
Only a century ago, the discipline of psychiatry had little in the way of a biomedical understanding...
Models of Madness shows that hallucinations and delusions are understandable reactions to life event...
Understandings of mental disorders have changed over time and related concepts are often contested a...
The very idea of mental illness is contested. Given its differences from physical illnesses, is it r...
The present work of reflection proposes the approach of the concepts of clinical structures and ment...
There is debate over what the proper scope of psychiatry is and what the nature of the conditions it...
<p>My proposal calls for a new discipline in the humanities to study madness. Mental illness is dif...
Madness is a major disorder of social ties and a universal problem for all societies. The formation ...
For as long as the human intellect has been documented, individuals have maintained curiosity toward...
Societies relate to madness in accordance with their dominant concepts about the world. Modern rati...
Introduction: In January 2014, professor Peter Gøtzsche, head of the independent Cochrane Center, ra...
This article makes the case for “social justice” in relation to the conceptions of “madness” that cu...
Are hallucinations and delusions really symptoms of an illness called 'schizophrenia'? Are mental he...
The relative explanatory power of psychiatric and social variables in the decision to hospitalize an...
Luhmann defined social systems as structured around specific social codes, and comprised of the comm...
Only a century ago, the discipline of psychiatry had little in the way of a biomedical understanding...
Models of Madness shows that hallucinations and delusions are understandable reactions to life event...
Understandings of mental disorders have changed over time and related concepts are often contested a...
The very idea of mental illness is contested. Given its differences from physical illnesses, is it r...
The present work of reflection proposes the approach of the concepts of clinical structures and ment...
There is debate over what the proper scope of psychiatry is and what the nature of the conditions it...
<p>My proposal calls for a new discipline in the humanities to study madness. Mental illness is dif...
Madness is a major disorder of social ties and a universal problem for all societies. The formation ...