Language for Those Who Have Nothing Mikhail Bakhtin and the Landscape of Psychiatry

The aim of Language for those who have Nothing is to think 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 phenomen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Good, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2001, 2001
Edition:1st ed. 2001
Series:Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 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