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The Sublime Object of Psychiatry - Schizophrenia in Clinical and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
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The Sublime Object of Psychiatry - Schizophrenia in Clinical and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
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Schizophrenia has been one of psychiatry's most contested
diagnostic categories. It has also served as a metaphor for
cultural theorists to interpret modern and postmodern
understandings of the self. These radical, compelling, and puzzling
appropriations of clinical accounts of schizophrenia have been
dismissed by many as illegitimate, insensitive and inappropriate.
Until now, no attempt has been made to analyse them systematically,
nor has their significance for our broader understanding of this
most 'ununderstandable' of experiences been addressed. The Sublime
Object of Psychiatry is the first book to study representations of
schizophrenia across a wide range of disciplines and discourses:
biological and phenomenological psychiatry, psychoanalysis,
critical psychology, antipsychiatry, and postmodern philosophy. In
part one, Woods offers a fresh analysis of the foundational
clinical accounts of schizophrenia, concentrating on the work of
Emil Kraepelin, Eugen Bleuler, Karl Jaspers, Sigmund Freud and
Jacques Lacan. In the second part of the book, she examines how
these accounts were critiqued, adapted, and mobilised in the
'cultural theory' of R D Laing, Thomas Szasz, Gilles Deleuze, Felix
Guattari, Louis Sass, Fredric Jameson and Jean Baudrillard. Using
the aesthetic concept of the sublime as an organising framework,
Woods explains how a clinical diagnostic category came to be
transformed into a potent metaphor in cultural theory, and how, in
that transformation, schizophrenia came to be associated with the
everyday experience of modern and postmodern life. Susan Sontag
once wrote: 'Any important disease whose causality is murky, and
for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in
significance'. The Sublime Object of Psychiatry does not provide an
answer to the question 'What is schizophrenia?', but instead brings
clinical and cultural theory into dialogue in order to explain how
schizophrenia became 'awash in significance'.
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