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Against Pathology the New Psychiatry and its Critics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Roland Littlewood
Roland Littlewood*
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Departments of Psychiatry and Anthropology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT
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Abstract

The notion of ‘pathology’ presumes an experiential and socially embedded frame of reference which is at variance with some recent attempts to understand the procedures and subject matter of psychiatry. Psychiatric theories remain bound by individual and historical contingencies whose compelling urgency obfuscates the inter-relationship of phenomenon, social context, response, and explanatory model.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 159 , Issue 5 , November 1991 , pp. 696 - 702
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Copyright © 1991 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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