The Psychiatric Team and the Social Definition of Schizophrenia

• Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Schizophrenia in context; 2. Time and space in a progressive psychiatric hospital; 3. Professional domains and the dimensions of a case; 4. Clinical teams and the 'whole person'; 5. Documenting a case: the written construction of schizophrenia; 6. Moral trajectories: from acute psychosis to 'chronic schizophrenic'; 7. Historical formulations of schizophrenia: degeneration and disintegration; 8. Contemporary formulations of schizophrenia: explaining the inexplicable; 9. Schizophrenia for practical purposes; 10. The person, the case, and schizophrenia; References; Index.

'… a solid contribution to our understanding of the life of psychiatric institutions as one ground of cultural psychologies and 'personologies' … Like any productive utterance, it not only moves the conversation along, but shows where further work is needed.' William S. Lachicotte, Folk