A genealogical analysis of the deployment of personality disorder in the UK psychiatric context since 1950: corpus linguistics as an adjunct to a Foucauldian discourse analysis of diachronic corpora of psychiatric texts from 1950 to 2007

In order to examine how personality disorder and related concepts have been deployed in UK psychiatric literature over the last 50 years, a number of methodological and theoretical approaches are initially examined. It is concluded that a Foucauldian discourse analytic approach, supported and inform...

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Main Author: Parnell, Mike
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13537/