Diagnosing Madness: The Discursive Construction of the Psychiatric Patient, 1850-1920 by Cristina Hanganu-Bresch, Carol Berkenkotter
Diagnosing Madness: The Discursive Construction of the Psychiatric Patient, 1850-1920

Cristina Hanganu-Bresch, Carol Berkenkotter

Diagnosing Madness: The Discursive Construction of the Psychiatric Patient, 1850-1920

Cristina Hanganu-Bresch, Carol Berkenkotter

168 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

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Diagnosing Madness is a study of the linguistic negotiations at the heart of mental illness identification and patient diagnosis. Through an examination of individual psychiatric case records from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,...

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