Abstract

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION The Broken Dialogue - Dwight Fee Mental Illness as Discourse and Experience PART TWO: PSYCHIATRIC DISCOURSE AND MENTAL LIFE IN POSTMODERN SPACES Escape from Insanity - Simon Gottschalk 'Mental Disorder' in the Postmodern Moment Performing Methods - Jackie Orr History, Hysteria and the New Science of Psychiatry The Project of Pathology - Dwight Fee Reflexivity and Depression in Elizabeth Wurtzel's /f003Prozac Nation PART THREE: PATHOLOGY AND SELFHOOD: NEW AND CONTESTED SUBJECTIVITIES The Self - Kenneth J Gergen Transfiguration by Technology Modernists at Heart? Postmodern Artist Breakdowns and the Question of Identity - Mark Freeman A Dangerous Symbolic Mobility - Janet Wirth-Cauchon Narratives of Borderline Personality Disorder Is it Me or Is it Prozac? Antidepressants and the Construction of Self - John P Hewitt, Michael R Fraser and Leslie Beth Berger PART FOUR: TOWARD NEW APPROACHES: EPISTEMOLOGY, RESEARCH, POLITICS Psychological Distress and Postmodern Thought - Vivian Burr and Trevor Butt Women's Madness - Jane Ussher A Material-Discursive-Intrapsychic Approach Grammar and the Brain - S R Sabat and Rom Harr[ac]e Does a Story Need a Theory? Understanding the Methodology of Narrative Therapy - Fred Newman

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