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Patients, doctors and the illness role : the theater of disorder / Brant Wenegrat.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wenegrat, Brant, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sick--Psychology.
- Sick.
- Social influence.
- Physician and patient.
- Social psychiatry.
- Psychotherapist and patient.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (301 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- There are certain phenomena such as multiple personality disorder and alien abduction syndrome that are difficult to explain. This volume applies a model of social relations to these phenomena in order to try to find an explanation.
- Contents:
- Contents; 1. The Theater of Disorder; 2. Basic Research and Observations; 3. Anthropological and Historical Studies; 4. Playing the Hypnotic Game; 5. Hysteria and Hysteria-like Disorders; 6. Multiple Personality Disorder; 7. Recovered Memory Roles; 8. Self-Knowledge, the Unconscious, and the Future of Illness Roles; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Previously issued in print: 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-773714-5
- 1-280-83495-1
- 9786610834952
- 0-19-534976-8
- OCLC:
- 316604796
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