1st Edition
Diagnostic Cultures A Cultural Approach to the Pathologization of Modern Life
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Introducing the Concept of Diagnostic Cultures
2. Psychiatric Diagnoses as Epistemic Objects
3. Languages of Suffering
4. Psychiatric Diagnoses as Semiotic Mediators
5. "Do More, Feel Better, Live Longer": Being a Psychiatric Subject
6. Interpreting the Epidemics
7. Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Mental Disorder
8. General Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Svend Brinkmann is Professor of Psychology and Qualitative Methods and Co-director of the Center for Qualitative Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the author of Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Life: Working with Everyday Life Materials, Qualitative Interviewing and Psychology as a Moral Science: Perspectives on Normativity, and the co-author of InterViews (Third Edition): Learning the Craft of Qualitative Research Interviewing.
"A captivating analysis of the ways that use of medical diagnoses to categorize human behavior has altered our inner experience and our everyday social lives." - Donald R. Marks and Larissa Redziniak in PsycCRITIQUES (2016)
