A Cultural Approach to Emotional Disorders: Psychological and Aesthetic Interpretations

by E. Deidre Pribram

Book Overview

In her latest contribution to the growing field of emotion studies, Deidre Pribram makes a compelling argument for why culturalist approaches to the study of emotional "disorders" continue to be eschewed, even as the sociocultural and historical study of mental illness flourishes. The author ties this phenomenon to a tension between two fundamentally different approaches to emotion: an individualist approach, which regards emotions as the property...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138018295
• ISBN13: 9781138018297
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"