By exploring the context of psychiatry's unofficial voices: its terminology, jokes, parodies, and everyday narratives, the clinical landscape is shown to rely heavily on unofficial dialogues in order to safeguard an official identity.
The Chronotope.- I Need to Know Where I Stand.- The Ringmaster and Laughter in the Care Chronotope.- Dialogues of the Classical and Grotesque Body.- Encounters with the Grotesque.- Madness and the Grotesque Chronotope.- The Practitioner Patients.- The Pseudopatients.- The Pseudopatient.- Consummation.