caa a22 4500 475788974 CHVBK 20180406123706.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1009018429802 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1009018429802 Lewis Bradley University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA aut Psychiatry and Postmodern Theory [Elektronische Daten] [Bradley Lewis] Psychiatry, as a subspecialty of medicine, is a quintessentially modernist project. Yet across the main campus, throughout the humanities and social sciences, there is increasing postmodern consensus that modernism is a deeply flawed project. Psychiatry, the closest of the medical specialties to the humanities and social sciences, will be the first to encounter postmodern theory. From my reading, psychiatry, though likely defensive at first, will eventually emerge from a postmodern critique, not only intact, but rejuvenated. Postmodern theory, at its best, provides a liberating effect on modernist practices, freeing them from an enslavement to Method and Objectivity in order to allow the more human (all charges of "antihumanism” not withstanding) to emerge as valued and respected. The net result could be the evolution of a new postmodern psychiatry and a new model of medicine which would be much more enjoyable to practice and much more connected to the concerns of patients. Human Sciences Press, Inc., 2000 Journal of Medical Humanities Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/2(2000-06-01), 71-84 1041-3545 21:2<71 2000 21 10912 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009018429802 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009018429802 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Lewis Bradley University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Medical Humanities Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/2(2000-06-01), 71-84 1041-3545 21:2<71 2000 21 10912 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer