Mental Illness and the Conciousness of Freedom: The Phenomenology of Psychiatric Labelling

Paradigmatically led by existential phenomenological premises, as formulated by Jean-Paul Sartre and Edmund Husserl specifically, this paper aims at a deconstruction of the value of psychiatric labelling in terms of the implications of such labelling for the labelled individual’s experience of freed...

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Main Author: Bradfield, Bruce (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Rhodes University 2002
In: The Indo-Pacific journal of phenomenology
Year: 2002, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-14
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Summary:Paradigmatically led by existential phenomenological premises, as formulated by Jean-Paul Sartre and Edmund Husserl specifically, this paper aims at a deconstruction of the value of psychiatric labelling in terms of the implications of such labelling for the labelled individual’s experience of freedom as a conscious imperative. This work has as its intention the destabilisation of labelling as a stubborn and inexorable mechanism for social propriety and regularity, which in its unyielding classificatory brandings is
ISSN:1445-7377
Contains:Enthalten in: The Indo-Pacific journal of phenomenology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/20797222.2002.11433871