Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 172 pages)
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illustrations, portraits
ISBN:
9004361898
,
9789004361898
Series Statement:
At the interface/Probing the boundaries volume 96
Content:
Over the course of the centuries the meanings around mental illness have shifted many times according to societal beliefs and the political atmosphere of the day. The way madness is defined has far reaching effects on those who have a mental disorder, and determines how they are treated by the professionals responsible for their care, and the society of which they are a part. Although madness as mental illness seems to be the dominant Western view of madness, it is by no means the only view of what it means to be 'mad'. The symptoms of madness or mental illness occur in all cultures of the world, but have different meanings in different social and cultural contexts. Evidence suggests that meanings of mental illness have a significant impact on subjective experience; the idioms used in the expression thereof, indigenous treatments, and subsequent outcomes. Thus, the societal understandings of madness are central to the problem of mental illness and those with the lived experience can lead the process of reconstructing this meaning
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004350780
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004350786
Additional Edition:
Print version The social constructions and experiences of madness Leiden : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2018]
Language:
English
Keywords:
Psychische Störung
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Soziale Konstruktion
;
Erfahrung
DOI:
10.1163/9789004361898
