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Tables of Contents for Pathology and the Postmodern
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Notes on Contributors
vii
Preface
xi
I INTRODUCTION
The Broken Dialogue: Mental Illness as Discourse and Experience
1
17
Dwight Fee
II PSYCHIATRIC DISCOURSE AND MENTAL LIFE IN POSTMODERN SPACES
Escape from Insanity: `Mental Disorder' in the Postmodern Moment
18
31
Simon Gottschalk
Performing Methods: History, Hysteria, and the New Science of Psychiatry
49
25
Jackie Orr
The Project of Pathology: Reflexivity and Depression in Elizabeth Wurtzel's Prozac Nation
74
26
Dwight Fee
III PATHOLOGY AND SELFHOOD: NEW AND CONTESTED SUBJECTIVITIES
The Self: Transfiguration by Technology
100
16
Kenneth J. Gergen
Modernists at Heart? Postmodern Artistic `Breakdowns' and the Question of Identity
116
25
Mark Freeman
A Dangerous Symbolic Mobility: Narratives of Borderline Personality Disorder
141
22
Janet Wirth-Cauchon
Is It Me or Is it Prozac? Antidepressants and the Construction of Self
163
23
John P. Hewitt
Michael R. Fraser
LeslieBeth Berger
IV TOWARD NEW APPROACHES: EPISTEMOLOGY, RESEARCH, POLITICS
Psychological Distress and Postmodern Thought
186
21
Vivien Burr
Trevor Butt
Women's Madness: A Material-Discursive-Intrapsychic Approach
207
24
Jane Ussher
Grammar and the Brain
231
17
Stev R. Sabat
Rom Harre
Does a Story Need a Theory? Understanding the Methodology of Narrative Therapy
248
15
Fred Newman
Index
263