Madness, childhood adversity and narrative psychiatry: Caring and the moral imagination

Medical Humanities

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 119-125

  Thomas, Philip ^a   Longden, Eleanor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARING; CHILD; CHILDHOOD ABUSE; EMPATHY; ETHICS; EXISTENTIALISM; FEMINISM; FEMINIST ETHICS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IMAGINATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MORALITY; NARRATIVE PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOSIS; RECOVERY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

CARING; CHILDHOOD ABUSE; EXISTENTIALISM; FEMINIST ETHICS; NARRATIVE PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOSIS; RECOVERY;

CHILD; EMPATHY; FEMINISM; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MORALS; NARRATION; PSYCHIATRY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84888131845     PISSN: 1468215X     EISSN: 14734265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2012-010268     Document Type: Article

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