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

• Main Author: Good, Peter. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2001.
• Series: Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics
• Subjects: Medicine.; Public health.; Psychiatry.; Linguistics.; Sociology.; Clinical psychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health.; Clinical Psychology.; Sociology, general.; Linguistics, general.
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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...

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.