A Critical History of Schizophrenia [electronic resource] / by Kieran McNally.

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McNally, Kieran [author.]

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Series: Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of PsychologyPublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016Description: IX, 269 p. online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781137456816

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In: Springer eBooksSummary: Schizophrenia was 20th century psychiatry's arch concept of madness. Yet for most of that century it was both problematic and contentious. This history explores schizophrenia's historic instability via themes such as symptoms, definition, classification and anti-psychiatry. In doing so, it opens up new ways of understanding 20th century madness.

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Schizophrenia was 20th century psychiatry's arch concept of madness. Yet for most of that century it was both problematic and contentious. This history explores schizophrenia's historic instability via themes such as symptoms, definition, classification and anti-psychiatry. In doing so, it opens up new ways of understanding 20th century madness.