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Worlds of psychotic people : wanderers, 'bricoleurs' and strategists / Els van Dongen.

Title
Worlds of psychotic people : wanderers, 'bricoleurs' and strategists / Els van Dongen.
Author
Van Dongen, Els
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

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Additional Authors
Dongen, Els van.
Description
vi, 263 p.; 25 cm.
Summary
"Worlds of Psychotic People brings a fresh twenty-first century voice to the lives of those with serious psychological disorders, focusing on the way in which psychiatric patients experience their subjective worlds. Based on ethnographic research gathered at the psychiatric hospital of Saint Anthony's in the Netherlands over a period of five years, it seeks to describe from the perspective of the mental patient some of the fears and hopes that mark an individual's encounter with the reality of a clinical mental ward."--Jacket.
Series Statement
Theory and practice in medical anthropology and international health ; v. 10 [i.e. 11]
Uniform Title
Theory and practice in medical anthropology and international health v. 11.
Subject
  • Schizophrenia
  • Psychotherapeutic Processes
  • Hospitals, Psychiatric
  • Culture
  • Psychotic Disorders
  • Mentally Ill Persons > psychology
  • Psychiatric hospital patients > Netherlands > Case studies
  • Social psychiatry > Netherlands > Case studies
  • Reality
  • Schizophrenic Psychology
  • Netherlands
Genre/Form
  • Case Reports
  • Case studies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-255) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. The quest for reality and the work with culture: when psychiatrists and anthropologists explore psychosis -- 3. Shaping the context of the speech events: models of therapists and patients -- 4. Hope and hopelessness, healthy and sick parts -- 5. Hiding in talk -- 6. Revealing in talk -- 7. Living in two worlds -- 8. The precarious world of psychotic people -- 9. Life and death -- 10. Conclusion: psychotic discourse revisited.
ISBN
0415303907
LCCN
^^2002068147
OCLC
  • 50115800
  • SCSB-10252952
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library