{"product_id":"diagnosing-madness-christina-hanganu-bresch-9781643360256","title":"Diagnosing Madness: The Discursive Construction of the Psychiatric Patient, 1850-1920","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn examination of the evolving rhetoric of psychiatric disease\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiagnosing Madness \u003c\/i\u003eis a study of the linguistic negotiations at the heart of mental illness identification and patient diagnosis. Through an examination of individual psychiatric case records from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Cristina Hanganu-Bresch and Carol Berkenkotter show how the work of psychiatry was navigated by patients, families, doctors, the general public, and the legal system. The results of examining those involved and their interactions show that the psychiatrist's task became one of constant persuasion, producing arguments surrounding diagnosis and asylum confinement that attempted to reconcile shifting definitions of disease and to respond to sociocultural pressures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy studying patient cases, the emerging literature of confinement, and patient accounts viewed alongside institutional records, the authors trace the evolving rhetoric of psychiatric disease, its impact on the treatment of patients, its implications for our contemporary understanding of mental illness, and the identity of the psychiatric patient. \u003ci\u003eDiagnosing \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMadness \u003c\/i\u003ehelps elucidate the larger rhetorical forces that contributed to the eventual decline of the asylum and highlights the struggle for the professionalization of psychiatry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christina Hanganu-Bresch, Carol Berkenkotter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1643360256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643360256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2020","brand":"Christina Hanganu-Bresch","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44125156409599,"sku":"9781643360256","price":52.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bce4b247-7c2b-4c0d-abde-3ae538dd8cc4.jpg?v=1687440972","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/diagnosing-madness-christina-hanganu-bresch-9781643360256","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}