Theater of disorder : patients, doctors, and the construction of illness

Brant Wenegrat

There are certain phenomena, such as hypnosis, hysteria, multiple personality disorder, recovered memory syndrome, claims of satanic ritual abuse, alien abduction syndrome, and culture-specific disorders that, although common, are difficult to explain completely. The purpose of this volume is to apply a model of social relations to these phenomena in order to provide a different explanation for them. The author argues that they are socially-constructed illness roles or purposive behaviour patterns into which patients fall while receiving either unintentional or intentional cues during interactions with care-takers and authority figures. The application of the social-relations model raises some important, yet previously overlooked, questions about these phenomena, illustrates some important aspects of human nature and consciousness, places illness behaviours in their larger, cultural context, and shows the way to a new and different view of mental life.

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[目次]

  • 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 Disorders
  • 7. Recovered Memory Roles
  • 8. Self-Knowledge, the Unconscious, and the Future of Illness Roles
  • NOTES
  • INDEX

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書名 Theater of disorder : patients, doctors, and the construction of illness
著作者等 Wenegrat, Brant
出版元 Oxford University Press
刊行年月 2001
ページ数 vi, 292 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0195140877
NCID BA56942906
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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