Memoir and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia: Reflections on The Centre Cannot Hold; Me, Myself, and Them; and the ‘Crumbling Twin Pillars’ of Kraepelinian Psychiatry

Woods, A.

doi:10.1108/13619321111178041

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The Limits of Narrative: Provocations for the Medical Humanities (2011)
Journal Article
Woods, A. (2011). The Limits of Narrative: Provocations for the Medical Humanities. Medical Humanities, 37(2), 73-78. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2011-010045

This paper aims to (re)ignite debate about the role of narrative in the medical humanities. It begins with a critical review of the ways in which narrative has been mobilised by humanities and social science scholars to understand the experience of h... Read More about The Limits of Narrative: Provocations for the Medical Humanities.

'I suffer in an unknown manner that is hieroglyphical’. Jung and Babette en route to Freud and Schreber (2011)
Journal Article
Woods, A. (2011). 'I suffer in an unknown manner that is hieroglyphical’. Jung and Babette en route to Freud and Schreber. History of the Present, 1(2), 244-258. https://doi.org/10.5406/historypresent.1.2.0244

To begin: two fragments. The first is an embroidered jacket. It belonged to a woman called Agnes Richter who lived in an Austrian asylum in the late 1890s. In the words of artist Renée Turner, the jacket is "embroidered so intensively that reading is... Read More about 'I suffer in an unknown manner that is hieroglyphical’. Jung and Babette en route to Freud and Schreber.

Post-Narrative: An Appeal (2011)
Journal Article
Woods, A. (2011). Post-Narrative: An Appeal. Narrative Inquiry, 21(2), 399-406. https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.21.2.20woo

As the narrative turn enters its fourth decade, the task of identifying the limits of narrative and of exploring alternative approaches to interpreting the self and social world is growing in urgency. This article calls for scholars in the medical hu... Read More about Post-Narrative: An Appeal.

Memoir and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia: Reflections on The Centre Cannot Hold; Me, Myself, and Them; and the ‘Crumbling Twin Pillars’ of Kraepelinian Psychiatry (2011)
Journal Article
Woods, A. (2011). Memoir and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia: Reflections on The Centre Cannot Hold; Me, Myself, and Them; and the ‘Crumbling Twin Pillars’ of Kraepelinian Psychiatry. Mental Health Review Journal: Research, Policy and Practice, 16(3), 102-106. https://doi.org/10.1108/13619321111178041

Purpose – Over 100 years ago, Emil Kraepelin revolutionised the classification of psychosis by identifying what he argued were two natural disease entities: manic depressive psychosis (bipolar disorder) and dementia praecox (schizophrenia). Kraepelin... Read More about Memoir and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia: Reflections on The Centre Cannot Hold; Me, Myself, and Them; and the ‘Crumbling Twin Pillars’ of Kraepelinian Psychiatry.