Angel Martinez-Hernaez

What's Behind The Symptom?

On Psychiatric Observation and Anthropological Understanding

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses the traditional perception of symptoms and whether they are physical signs of illness or symbolic and cultural forms of expression, by examining contemporary psychiatric knowledge, medical anthropology, psychiatry and psychology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9789057026126
• ISBN-10: 9057026120
• Artikelnr.: 21201051

Autorenporträt

Angel Martinez-Hernaez

Inhaltsangabe

What Is Behind the Symptom. On Psychiatric Observation The Dream of
Biomedical Psychiatry. Kraepelin Versus Freud: A Retrospective.
Neo-Kraepelinism (I): Nosologies. Neo-Kraepelinism (II): Epidemiologies.
The Limits of Psychiatric Observation. and Anthropological Understanding.
Toward an Anthropology of Symptoms (I): Four Pre-interpretive Approaches.
Toward an Anthropology of Symptoms (II): Hermeneutics and Politics.
Semiotic Incursions. Ethnographic Interpretations: Symptoms, Symbols, and
Small Worlds. The Limits of Ethnographic Interpretations.