Sökning: "concept of mental illness"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 34 avhandlingar innehållade orden concept of mental illness.
1. On the notion of mental illness : Problematizing the medical-model conception of certain abnormal behaviour and mental afflictions
Sammanfattning : This study inquires into some polemics concerning the notion of mentalillness or disease. Some central arguments in the debate on psychiatry, of the 1960's and early 70's, are focused on.The analysis is performed in two steps. LÄS MER
2. Myt och manipulation : Radikal psykiatrikritik i svensk offentlig idédebatt 1968-1973
Sammanfattning : The aim of the present thesis is to study radical criticism of psychiatry in public discussion in Sweden between 1968 and 1973. Although it was not the first time psychiatry had been challenged, the debate during these years displayed an unprecedented intensity. LÄS MER
3. Problemet utan namn? : Neuroser, stress och kön i Sverige från 1950 till 1980
Sammanfattning : Focusing on Sweden between 1950 and 1980, this doctoral dissertation analyzes and problematizes the process in which a discourse about neurosis and nervous troubles gradually evolved into a discourse about stress. The thesis aims to show how the medical and general discussion about diffuse or vague symptoms transformed and rearticulated ideas and views on society and man, citizenship, gender roles, and medicine. LÄS MER
4. Nietzsche and the Philosophy of Pessimism : Schopenhauer, Hartmann, Leopardi
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a study of the predominantly German pessimistic tradition in the philosophy of the late nineteenth century, and of Nietzsche’s complex relation to that tradition. The aim of the dissertation is firstly to analyse how pessimism came to be established as a philosophical concept by Schopenhauer and a later generation of pessimistic thinkers, and secondly to investigate how Nietzsche understood pessimism. LÄS MER
5. Quality of Care in the Psychiatric Setting : Perspectives of the Patient, Next of Kin and Care staff
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis was to describe quality of care from different perspectives in the psychiatric setting, to develop an instrument for measuring quality of care from the in-patient perspective and to use this instrument empirically. A qualitative descriptive design involving a phenomenographic analysis was used in Studies I, III and IV, and a descriptive and comparative design with statistical analysis in Study II. LÄS MER