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A Cultural Approach to Emotional Disorders - Psychological and Aesthetic Interpretations (Paperback)
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A Cultural Approach to Emotional Disorders - Psychological and Aesthetic Interpretations (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
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In her latest contribution to the growing field of emotion studies,
Deidre Pribram makes a compelling argument for why culturalist
approaches to the study of emotional "disorders" continue to be
eschewed, even as the sociocultural and historical study of mental
illness flourishes. The author ties this phenomenon to a tension
between two fundamentally different approaches to emotion: an
individualist approach, which regards emotions as the property of
the individual, whether biologically or psychologically, and a
culturalist approach, which regards emotions as collective, social
processes with distinctive histories and meanings that work to
produce particularized subjects. While she links a strong
preference for the individualist construct in Western culture to
the rise of the psychological and psychiatric disciplines at the
turn of the twentieth century, Pribram also engages with a diverse
set of case studies tied to psychological and aesthetic discourses
on emotions. These range from Van Gogh's status as emotionally
disordered to the public, emotional aesthetics of 19th century
melodrama to the diagnostic categories of the DSMs and the fear of
"globalizing" emotional disorders in the 21st century. This
genuinely interdisciplinary approach makes for a text with
potential application in a wide range of disciplines within
cultural studies, including sociocultural and historical analysis
of psychiatry and psychology, gender theory, subject and identity
theory, popular culture studies, and history and theory of the
arts.
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