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This volume offers a set of critical examinations of the field of psychopathology. It investigates the social formation of psychopathology across different cultural, discursive and political contexts, and draws on theory from two traditional domains of psychology - social and abnormal psychology.

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Author:   Derek Hook ,  Gillian Eagle
Publisher:   University of Cape Town Press
Imprint:   University of Cape Town Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.70cm
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9781919713670

ISBN 10:   1919713670
Pages:   316
Publication Date:   02 January 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Book
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Poised on the brink: the social construction of a new biological psychiatry; The political conundrums of post-traumatic stress disorder; A critical re-reading of post-traumatic stress disorder from a cross-cultural perspective; Rewriting the body, re-authoring the expert, reading the anorexic body; Avoiding the implicit re-pathologisation of male homosexuality: a politico-clinical direction for research; The psychopathology of social identity, ethnicity & 'race'; Unsettling meanings of madness: competing constructions of South African insanity; Xenophobia: a new pathology for a new South Africa; Stigmatising discourses in the construction of sexually transmitted diseases; Witches & watchers: witchcraft beliefs & practices in rural communities of the Northern Province; Madness, memory & the market; Normality & pathology: from disciplinarity to post-disciplinarity; Norms, normativity & normalisation: between the vital & the social.

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Derek Hook and Gillian Eagle both lecture in the School of Human and Community Development at the University of the Witwatersrand

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