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Henrik Loodin.

Henrik Loodin

Senior lecturer

Henrik Loodin.

The Absurdalities of Mental Illness - a narrative inquiry into psychiatric diagnosis

Author

  • Henrik Loodin

Summary, in English

This text examines three life stories about becoming mentally ill and Albert Camus’ fictive narrative “The Stranger”. The main concern is how the social and psychiatry intervenes in the narrative that the interviewees give. Drawing from a reasoning in Michel Foucaults monograph Madness and Civilization and Dorothy Smiths work on relations of ruling the argument in this article is that when becoming mentally ill one is involved in a process of loosing agency in ones own life story. Illustratively with Camus novel the analysis unravel that the interviewees become strangers in their own life story.

Department/s

  • Department of Service Studies

Publishing year

2009

Language

English

Pages

11-98

Publication/Series

Qualitative Sociology Review

Volume

5

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Lodz University

Topic

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Keywords

  • psychiatry
  • life stories
  • narrative
  • estrangement
  • sociologi
  • sociology

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1733-8077