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Mental Illness and the Conciousness of Freedom: The Phenomenology of Psychiatric Labelling
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Paradigmatically led by existential phenomenological premises, as formulated by Jean-Paul Sartre and Edmund Husserl specifically, this paper aims at a deconstruction of the value of psychiatric labelling in terms of the implications of such labelling for the labelled individual’s experience of freedom as a conscious imperative. This work has as its intention the destabilisation of labelling as a stubborn and inexorable mechanism for social propriety and regularity, which in its unyielding classificatory brandings is
Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, Volume 2, Edition 1, April 2002
Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, Volume 2, Edition 1, April 2002