Mental Illness and the Conciousness of Freedom: The Phenomenology of Psychiatric Labelling
Paradigmatically led by existential phenomenological premises, as formulated by Jean-Paul Sartre and Edmund Husserl specifically, this paper aims at a deconstruction of the value of psychiatric labelling in terms of the implications of such labelling for the labelled individual’s experience of freed...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Rhodes University
2002
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The Indo-Pacific journal of phenomenology
Year: 2002, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-14 |
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Summary: | Paradigmatically led by existential phenomenological premises, as formulated by Jean-Paul Sartre and Edmund Husserl specifically, this paper aims at a deconstruction of the value of psychiatric labelling in terms of the implications of such labelling for the labelled individual’s experience of freedom as a conscious imperative. This work has as its intention the destabilisation of labelling as a stubborn and inexorable mechanism for social propriety and regularity, which in its unyielding classificatory brandings is |
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ISSN: | 1445-7377 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: The Indo-Pacific journal of phenomenology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/20797222.2002.11433871 |