Patient tales : case histories and the uses of narrative in psychiatry / Carol Berkenkotter.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Berkenkotter, Carol.

Series:

• Studies in rhetoric/communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Psychiatry--19th century--Case studies--History.
• Psychiatry.
• Mentally ill.
• History.
• Psychiatry--20th century--Case studies--History.
• Mentally ill--History.
• Psychiatry--history.
• History, 19th Century.
• History, 20th Century.
• Interview, Psychological.
• Medical Records.
• Mental Disorders--therapy.
• Narration--history.

Medical Subjects:

• Psychiatry--history.
• History, 19th Century.
• History, 20th Century.
• Interview, Psychological.
• Medical Records.
• Mental Disorders--therapy.
• Narration--history.

Genre:

• Case studies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [2008]

Contents:

• Case histories in the hospital and the medical journal in enlightenment Scotland
• In his own words : using a patient's utterances to document an "unsound mind"
• Capturing insanity : the wedding of photography and physiognomy in the mid-nineteenth-century medical journal article
• Asylum notes : the historical antecedents of psychiatry's case histories
• The Freudian hiatus : psychoanalysis and narrative in Fragment of an analysis of a case of hysteria
• Case histories and the transformation of American psychiatry : near demise of a genre during the rise of a "scientific" classification system
• Psychotherapist as author : case reports, classification, and categorization (with Doris Ravotas)
• In retrospect : a case for historical narrative inquiry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-192) and index.

ISBN:

• 9781570037610
• 1570037612

OCLC:

227922379