THE PSYCHIATRIC TEAM AND THE SOCIAL DEFINITION OF SCHIZOPHRENIA by Robert John Barrett ( 9780521031462 )

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THE PSYCHIATRIC TEAM AND THE SOCIAL DEFINITION OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY OF PERSON AND ILLNESS

By:

Robert John Barrett

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052103146X

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9780521031462

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

11 September, 2006

Series:

Studies in Social and Community Psychiatry

Pages:

360

Description:

A study of schizophrenia arising from an anthropological investigation in a modern psychiatric hospital.

Synopsis:

This book is a study of schizophrenia in a modern psychiatric hospital. Its purpose is to develop a contextual understanding of schizophrenia by studying the clinical setting in which this disorder is experienced, diagnosed and treated. It arises from an anthropological investigation of the day-to-day work of clinical staff. The author offers a penetrating analysis of the language used by hospital staff as they write and talk about their patients and traces the evolution of the concept of schizophrenia, showing how contemporary theoretical constructs are applied by clinical staff. In its analysis of the schizophrenia team and of those experiencing the disorder, this book will reveal to mental health professionals many of the unspoken assumptions of their role. It will also confirm to social scientists and clinicians the power of the ethnographic approach in psychiatric research.

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6 b/w illus.

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Cambridge University Press

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