Theater of Disorder : Patients, Doctors and the Construction of Illness
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0195140877
ISBN-13
9780195140873
Publisher
Oxford University Press
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Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 25th, 2001
Print length
304 Pages
Weight
598 grams
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24.20 x 16.40 x 2.30 cms
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Health psychologyMedical diagnosisPsychiatryClinical psychology
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Some phenomena such as hypnosis, hysteria, multiple personality disorder, recovered memory syndrome, and culture-specific disorders 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 an explanation for them.
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. Wenegrat argues that they are socially-constructed illness roles or purposive behavior patterns into which patients fall while receiving either unintentional or intentional cues during interactions with caretakers 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 behaviors in their larger, cultural context, and shows the way to a new and different view of mental life.
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