| Worlds of Psychotic People: Wanderers, 'Bricoleurs' and Strategists Contributor(s): Van Dongen, Els (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415303907 ISBN-13: 9780415303903 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $95.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2004 Annotation: Throughout the ages anthropologists, philosophers, historians, psychiatrists and psychotics themselves have discussed and describes the symptoms of madness. But how seriously should we take madness? Is there any truth in the old idea that psychotic people have access to a world of meaning which remains locked to others? "Worlds of Psychotic People" brings a fresh twenty-first century voice to the lives of those with serious psychological disorders, focusing on the manner in which psychiatric patients experience their subjective worlds. Based on ethnographic research gathered at the psychiatric hospital of Saint Anthony's in the Netherlands over a period of five years, it seeks to describe the perspective of the mental patient some of the fears and hopes that mark an individual's encounter with the fixed reality-structures of a clinical mental ward. Introducing the concept of the psychotic patient as wanderer through culture, creating a 'bricolage' reality from the materials at hand, Els van Dongen aims to open up the often secretive exchanges that take place between therapists and patients, and to seek new meanings and interpretations from these for use thin the therapeutic endeavor. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychopathology - General - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 362.210 |
| LCCN: 2002068147 |
| Series: Theory and Practice in Medical Anthropology and Internationa |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.34" W x 9.52" (1.18 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Mentally Challenged |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Worlds of Psychotic People brings a fresh twenty-first century voice to the lives of those with serious psychological disorders, focusing on the manner in which psychiatric patients experience their subjective worlds. Based on ethnographic research gathered at the psychiatric hospital of Saint Anthony's in the Netherlands over a period of five years, it seeks to describe from the perspective of the mental patient some of the fears and hopes that mark an individual's encounter with the fixed reality-structures of a clinical mental ward. |