TY - CHAP
T1 - Medieval mysticism to schizoaffective disorder
T2 - the repositioning of subjectivity in the discourse of psychiatry
AU - Torn, Alison
PY - 2017/9/28
Y1 - 2017/9/28
N2 - Utilising the scholarship of Foucault and Bakhtin, this chapter explores European understandings to unusual experiences pre and post-Enlightenment. Drawing on the first-hand narrative of Margery Kempe (@1373-1438), the chapter examines how unusual behaviours are defined through dominant paradigms of understanding in each period- firstly, using cultural-religious understandings, and secondly framed as early examples of psychosis following the advent of psychiatry. With the experiencing subject embedded in time, space and a network of human relations that are all pivotal to the validation of human experience, the chapter argues that the search for meaning should take precedence over concerns regarding categorisation.
AB - Utilising the scholarship of Foucault and Bakhtin, this chapter explores European understandings to unusual experiences pre and post-Enlightenment. Drawing on the first-hand narrative of Margery Kempe (@1373-1438), the chapter examines how unusual behaviours are defined through dominant paradigms of understanding in each period- firstly, using cultural-religious understandings, and secondly framed as early examples of psychosis following the advent of psychiatry. With the experiencing subject embedded in time, space and a network of human relations that are all pivotal to the validation of human experience, the chapter argues that the search for meaning should take precedence over concerns regarding categorisation.
UR - https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Critical-Mental-Health-1st-Edition/Cohen/p/book/9781138225473
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781138225473
T3 - Routledge International Handbooks
SP - 126
EP - 132
BT - Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health
A2 - Cohen, Bruce
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -