234 Pages
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Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
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Routledge
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In incorporating social process into a model of the dynamics of mental disorders, this text questions the individualistic model favoured in current psychiatric and psychoanalytic theory. While the conventional psychiatric viewpoint seeks the causes of mental illness, Scheff views "the symptoms of mental illness" as the violation of residual rules - social norms so taken for granted that they are... Read more
Part 1 Introduction: labelling theory and biopsychiatry -reviewing the record; individual and social systems in deviance. Part 2 Theory: social control as a system; residual deviance; the social institution of insanity. Part 3 Research: decisions in medicine; two studies of the societal reaction; negotiating reality - notes on power in the assessment of responsibility.
Biography
Thomas J. Scheff
