Language for Those Who Have Nothing: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Landscape of Psychiatry

by Peter Good

The aim of Language for those who have Nothing is to think psychiatry through the writings of Mikhail Bakhtin. Using the concepts of Dialogism and Polyphony, the Carnival and the Chronotope, a novel means of navigating the clinical landscape is developed. Bakhtin offers language as a social phenomenon and one that is fully embodied. Utterances are shown to be alive and enfleshed and their meanings realised in the context of given social dimensions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306465027
• ISBN13: 9780306465024
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"