1st Edition
The Patient as Text the Role of the Narrator in Psychiatric Notes, 1890-1990
By Petter Aaslestad
Copyright 2009
198 Pages
by
CRC Press
198 Pages
by
CRC Press
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A commonly-held model of the doctor-patient relationship casts it as a subject/object relationship: broadly the patient is a 'text', and the doctor the reader or interpreter of that text. However, recent critical models preset notions of text and reader as complex and unstable, and the relationship of doctor and patient as similarly complicated. Explorations of psychiatry and 'madness' by critics... Read more
Introduction. Prelude. Background. Departure point. First period: 1890 -1920. Second period: 1920 -1950. Third period: 1950 -1980. Fourth period: our own time. Conclusion. Bibliography.
Biography
Petter Aaslestad
