Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen

Making Minds and Madness

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Produktbeschreibung

A provocative argument that mental illnesses are not diseases, but the product of varying expectations shared by therapists and patients.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9780521888639
• ISBN-10: 0521888638
• Artikelnr.: 25546182

Autorenporträt

Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. He is the author of highly influential books on the theory and history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis and co-author of the best-selling Le Livre Noir de la Psychanalyse (The Black Book of Psychoanalysis).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: making psychiatric history (questions of method)
Part I. Microhistories of Trauma: 1. How to predict the past: from trauma to repression
2. Neurotica: Freud and the seduction theory
3. A black box named 'Sybil'
Part II. Fragments of a Theory of Generalized Artifact: 4. What made Albert run?
5. The Bernheim effect
6. Simulating the unconscious
Part III. The Freudian Century: 7. Is psychoanalysis a fairy-tale?
8. Interprefactions: Freud's legendary science (in collaboration with Sonu Shamdasani)
9. Portrait of the psychoanalyst as a chameleon
Part IV. Market Psychiatry: 10. Science of madness, madness of science
11. The great depression
12. Psychotherapy today
13. Therapy users and disease mongers.