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The Absurdalities of Mental Illness - a narrative inquiry into psychiatric diagnosis

Författare

Summary, in English

This text examines three life stories about becoming mentally ill and Albert Camus’ fictive narrative “The Stranger”. The main concern is how the social and psychiatry intervenes in the narrative that the interviewees give. Drawing from a reasoning in Michel Foucaults monograph Madness and Civilization and Dorothy Smiths work on relations of ruling the argument in this article is that when becoming mentally ill one is involved in a process of loosing agency in ones own life story. Illustratively with Camus novel the analysis unravel that the interviewees become strangers in their own life story.

Publiceringsår

2009

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

11-98

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Qualitative Sociology Review

Volym

5

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Lodz University

Ämne

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Nyckelord

  • psychiatry
  • life stories
  • narrative
  • estrangement
  • sociologi
  • sociology

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1733-8077