Research Catalog

Title

Theater of disorder : patients, doctors, and the construction of illness / Brant Wenegrat.

Author

Wenegrat, Brant.

Publication

Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Details

Description

vi, 292 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "In recent years, many Americans have claimed to have multiple personalities or recovered memories, or to have been abused by satanists or extraterrestrials. At the same time, disorders like chronic fatigue syndrome and "total allergy syndrome" have been on the increase. This book places these claims and supposed disorders in the framework of "culture bound syndromes," both Western and non-Western, and shows how they reflect the essentially social and even theatrical nature of human thought and action. These claims and disorders illustrate, in the clearest possible form, aspects of human nature discovered by social psychologists, but not yet widely understood by those outside the field.
• By considering these claims and disorders in detail, this book introduces readers to a new view of thought and consciousness that will change the way readers see themselves and others."--Jacket.

Subject

• Sick > Psychology
• Social influence
• Physician and patient
• Psychotherapist and patient
• Social psychiatry
• Social psychology
• Sick Role
• Psychology, Social
• Physician-Patient Relations
• Community Psychiatry
• Malades > Psychologie
• Influence sociale
• Relations médecin-patient
• Relations psychothérapeutiques
• Psychiatrie sociale
• Psychologie sociale
• social psychology
• 44.91 psychiatry, psychopathology
• Social psychology
• Physician and patient
• Psychotherapist and patient
• Sick > Psychology
• Social influence
• Social psychiatry
• Konstrukt
• Krankheitsbild
• Medizin
• Wissenschaftstheorie
• Zeitgeist
• Geestelijke gezondheid
• Iatrogene ziekten
• Cultuurpsychologie
• Arts-patiënt-relatie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-271) and index.

Contents

The Theater of Disorder -- Basic Research and Observations -- Anthropological and Historical Studies -- Playing the Hypnotic Game -- Hysteria and Hysteria-like Disorders -- Multiple Personality Disorder -- Recovered Memory Roles -- Self-Knowledge, the Unconscious, and the Future of Illness Roles.

ISBN

• 0195140877
• 9780195140873

LCCN

00053760

OCLC

• ocm45356711
• 45356711
• SCSB-1239759

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library