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29 - English Language and Literature
University of Durham
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Book title
The Sublime Object of Psychiatry: Schizophrenia in Clinical and Cultural Theory.
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Oxford University Press.
ISBN of book
9780199583959
Year of publication
2011
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
The Sublime Object of Psychiatry is the first book to study representations of schizophrenia across a wide range of disciplines and discourses: biological and phenomenological psychiatry, psychoanalysis, critical psychology, antipsychiatry, literature and postmodern philosophy. The aesthetic concept of the sublime provides an organising framework to explain how a clinical diagnostic category came to be transformed into a potent metaphor in cultural theory, and how, in that transformation, schizophrenia came to be associated with the everyday experience of modern and postmodern life. The book is 90,000 words in length.
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No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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