Asylums
A sociological and ethnographic examination of the social lives of mental patients in psychiatric hospitals.
A sociological and ethnographic examination of the social lives of mental patients in psychiatric hospitals.
Many perspectives are available regarding the nature of mental illness and mental health.
Whatever your image of an individual with schizophrenia, I am willing to bet it is not Elyn Saks.
Robert Whitaker wants to know why the number of disabled mentally ill has tripled over the last two decades in the United States.
Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world’s poorest countries. Robert Whitaker seeks to find out why.
John Russon draws on concepts from European Continental Philosophy to argue that neurosis is fundamental to the human condition itself.
Through insightful rhetorical analysis, Kimberly Emmons investigates and reveals how discourses of depression get constructed.
This is a Michel Foucault’s masterpiece that delves into the historical development of what we call madness today.
This is a Michel Foucault’s masterpiece that delves into the historical development of what we call madness today.
Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand.