Readmission and the social construction of mental disturbance

Terre Blanche, M. J. (Martin J.)

dc.contributor.advisor	Nell, V.
dc.contributor.advisor	Butchart, Alexander, 1961-
dc.contributor.author	Terre Blanche, M. J. (Martin J.)
dc.date.accessioned	2015-01-23T04:24:20Z
dc.date.available	2015-01-23T04:24:20Z
dc.date.issued	1998-11
dc.identifier.citation	Terre Blanche, M. J. (Martin J.) (1998) Readmission and the social construction of mental disturbance, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16182>	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16182
dc.description.abstract	This dissertation examines recurrent patterns in the interaction between psychiatric patients and the systems of knowledge and power that constitute them as patients. These patterns are traced both in the historical migmti::m of patients into and out of the asylum, and in the language used by doctors and patients to account for such migration. Transcripts of interviews with patients and case notes written by doctors are subjected to new forms of quantitative analysis and this is used together with qualitative interpretation to reveal the ways in which disciplinary power operates through confession and surveillance to constitute psychiatric subjects in the tension between freedom and incarceration.	en
dc.format.extent	1 online resource (ix, 363 leaves)	en
dc.language.iso	en
dc.subject.ddc	616.89
dc.subject.lcsh	Psychiatric hospitals -- Admission and discharge	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Mentally ill -- Admission and discharge	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Ex-mental patients -- Mental health services	en
dc.title	Readmission and the social construction of mental disturbance	en
dc.type	Thesis
dc.description.department	Psychology
dc.description.degree	D.Litt. et Phil. (Psychology)