Overview

A commonly-held model of the doctor-patient relationship casts it as a subject/object relationship: broadly the patient is a 'text' and the doctor the reader or interpreter. However recent critical models preset notions of text and reader as complex and unstable and the relationship of doctor and patient as similarly complicated. Explorations of psychiatry and 'madness' by critics such as Michel Foucault present a further background of complex ideological change. In The Patient as Text Petter Aaslestad explores selections from over a century of psychiatric notes from Gaustad Hospital Norway against this critical background exploring the impact of ideological and medical changes surrounding the psychiatric clinical relationship and psychiatric professionals as constructors of narratives. How is the patient made audible and visible in the records? The author identifies the possible effects of different narrative techniques why some are preferred above others and how the historical context affects the choice of technique as well as the basic structure of the record itself. This book will be of interest to researchers in the medical humanities psychiatric practitioners and those with an interest in medical history and critical theory.

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Author:   Petter Aaslestad ,  Erik Skuggevik ,  Deborah Dawkin
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   CRC Press
Edition:   1st New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781846193620

ISBN 10:   1846193621
Pages:   198
Publication Date:   21 December 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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'An interesting book that examines a concept rarely used or discussed in modern psychiatry - The overall concept of narrative in this book is an important one.' Doody's Book Reviews

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