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29 - English Language and Literature
University of Durham
The Sublime Object of Psychiatry: Schizophrenia in Clinical and Cultural Theory.
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.