Language for Those Who Have Nothing

Mikhail Bakhtin and the Landscape of Psychiatry
2001
ISBN: 978-0-306-46502-4
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 565 g

Reihe: Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics

The aim of is to psychiatry through the writings of Mikhail Bakhtin. Using the concepts of Dialogism and Polyphony, the Carnival and the Chronotope, a novel means of navigating the clinical landscape is developed.
Bakhtin offers language as a social phenomenon and one that is fully embodied. Utterances are shown to be alive and enfleshed and their meanings realised in the context of given social dimensions. The organisation of this book corresponds with carnival practices of taking the high down to the low before replenishing its meaning anew. Thus early discussions of official language and the chronotope become exposed to descending levels of analysis and emphasis.
Patients and practitioners are shown to occupy an entirely different spatio-temporal topography. These chronotopes have powerful borders and it is necessary to use the Carnival powers of cunning and deception in order to enter and to leave them. The book provides an overview of practitioners who have attempted such transgression and the author records his own unnerving experience as a pseudopatient. By exploring the context of psychiatry's unofficial voices: its terminology, jokes, parodies, and everyday narratives, the clinical landscape is shown to rely heavily on unofficial dialogues in order to safeguard an official identity.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Good, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Chronotope.- I Need to Know Where I Stand.- The Ringmaster and Laughter in the Care Chronotope.- Dialogues of the Classical and Grotesque Body.- Encounters with the Grotesque.- Madness and the Grotesque Chronotope.- The Practitioner Patients.- The Pseudopatients.- The Pseudopatient.- Consummation.