1st Edition

On the Social Utility of Psychopathology Deviant Majority and Its Keepers?

By Nathaniel Pallone Copyright 1986
92 Pages
by Routledge

Nathaniel Pallone argues that, whatever else is true of psycho-pathology, it serves purposes which are socially useful. What­ever else is true of its clinical treatment, such treatment func­tions as a form of social regula­tion. In societal terms, such treat­ment may serve purposes quite other than the relief of psycho­logical disease or even the remedy of psychological... Read more

Biography

Nathaniel Pallone