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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Language for Those Who Have Nothing
Book Subtitle: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Landscape of Psychiatry
Authors: Peter Good
Series Title: Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b112488
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2001
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-46502-4Published: 31 January 2001
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-7445-0Published: 30 March 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-47198-8Published: 11 April 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 242
Topics: Psychiatry, Public Health, Clinical Psychology, Sociology, general, Linguistics, general