Theater of Disorder - Patients, Doctors and the Construction of Illness (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2001
First published:	October 2001
Authors:	Brant Wenegrat (Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences)
Dimensions:	242 x 162 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	300
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-514087-3
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Medical diagnosis > General Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > Health psychology Promotions
LSN:	0-19-514087-7
Barcode:	9780195140873

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