TY - JOUR
AU - Adams, Rebecca G.
AB - 394 / Social Forces 75:1, September 1996 Prior's arguments, though highly suggestive, are ultimately unsatisfactory. Beginning his discussion, literally, with the language of "psychiatric disorder" and the "psychiatric hospital," he becomes trapped by that language and its assumptions, which continue throughout the volume even when they appear patently inconsistent with the material presented. That is, in his professed approach of discourse analysis, Prior appears to have produced little reflexive consideration of his own linguistic usage and its consequent limitations. Second, his explanation focuses on the shift of professional roles and practice from psychiatry to psychiatric nursing and social work, with the "new" professionals more oriented toward community. But if Prior is correct, how is this shift itself explained? And is it only an "internal" shift? To attribute the transition to progress in understandings within psychiatry is surely to beg the question, if only a little — just as, as the author rightly argues earlier in the volume, a focus on only external forces begs key questions. From another perspective, Prior has laid out an interesting explanatory scheme that can be understood as bileveled, one level explicated, the other not. The first is constructionist, analyzing psychiatric discourse to explain development 
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DO - 10.1093/sf/75.1.394
DA - 1996-09-01
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