Narratives of Troubled Journeys: Personality disorder and the medicalisation of moral dilemmas

This thesis examines the interaction of the medical and moral in the historical evolution of “personality disorder” starting with the relationship between Prichard’s (1835) diagnosis of “Moral Insanity” and an anti-modern religious text (Hancock, 1824) describing disorder of the moral faculty. Moral...

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Main Author: Middleton, Raymond P.
Other Authors: Burkitt, Ian
Language:en
Published: University of Bradford 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17388