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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
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