In incorporating social process into a model of the dynamics of mental disorders, this text questions the individualistic model favoured in current psychiatric and psychoanalytic theory
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part 1 Introduction: labelling theory and biopsychiatry -reviewing the record; individual and social systems in deviance. Part 2 Theory: social control as a system; residual deviance; the social institution of insanity. Part 3 Research: decisions in medicine; two studies of the societal reaction; negotiating reality - notes on power in the assessment of responsibility.