Patient tales : case histories and the uses of narrative in psychiatry / Carol Berkenkotter.

Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [2008]

xvii, 201 pages : black and white illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Case histories in the hospital and the medical journal in enlightenment Scotland -- In his own words : using a patient's utterances to document an "unsound mind" -- Capturing insanity : the wedding of photography and physiognomy in the mid-nineteenth-century medical journal article -- Asylum notes : the historical antecedents of psychiatry's case histories -- The Freudian hiatus : psychoanalysis and narrative in Fragment of an analysis of a case of hysteria -- Case histories and the transformation of American psychiatry : near demise of a genre during the rise of a "scientific" classification system -- Psychotherapist as author : case reports, classification, and categorization (with Doris Ravotas) -- In retrospect : a case for historical narrative inquiry.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-192) and index.