Recognising madness in others; Relativizing madness in oneself : from lay concepts to therapeutic itineraries
Societies relate to madness in accordance with their dominant concepts about the world. Modern rationality has created mental illness as an ‘object’ controlled by medicine. In lay knowledge the concepts, attitudes and practices associated with mental illness are culturally distant from the scientifi...
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| Format: | bookPart |
| Language: | eng |
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2020
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/9225 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:repositorioaberto.uab.pt:10400.2/9225 |