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Diagnostic Cultures - A Cultural Approach to the Pathologization of Modern Life (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Diagnostic Cultures - A Cultural Approach to the Pathologization of Modern Life (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
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Some studies estimate that each year, around a quarter of the
population of Western countries will suffer from at least one
mental disorder. Should this be interpreted as evidence for the
progress of psychiatry, a discipline that is now able to identify
and treat mental illnesses that have always existed, or might it be
the case that modern life somehow creates new conditions, or social
pathologies? This book argues that in fact something more
fundamental has been taking place in recent years: the development
of diagnostic cultures. Taking account of the phenomenon of
patients themselves 'pushing for' pathologization - and
acknowledging therefore that this is not simply a case of
psychiatry pursuing an agenda of 'medicalisation from above' - this
volume examines the emerging trend towards interpreting our
sufferings in terms of psychiatric conceptions and diagnostic
categories. Drawing on new empirical case studies of psychological
diagnoses, including depression and ADHD, and employing both
cultural-psychological and sociological analyses, it charts the
development of contemporary diagnostic cultures and asks whether,
in transforming existential, moral and political concerns into
individual psychiatric disorders, we risk losing sight of the
larger historical and social forces that affect our lives. A
ground-breaking examination of the shift towards the
pathologization of suffering and the dangers that this presents to
human self-understanding, Diagnostic Cultures will be of interest
to scholars of social theory and philosophy, the sociology of
culture, psychology and the sociology health and medicine.
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