Main description:

This book has an international focus so will appeal to a broader market.

Uses qualitative, phenomenological research methods to focus in on the lived experiences of people diagnosed with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders.

Contents:

Foreword Introduction 1. Psychiatric Diagnosis in History 2. The Emergence of the "Schizophrenia" Diagnosis: Conventional, Cross-Cultural, and Alternative Approaches 3. Phenomenological Accounts 4. A Multi-Site, International Project 5. Urhomelessness as a Way of Being-in-the-World 6. Wandering in Exile: The Nomadic Moment 7. Imaginal and Ideal Home: The Settled Moment 8. Impossibility of Shelter: The Destitute Moment 9. A Continuum of Experience: Urhomelessness and Recovery 10. Cultural Diversity and Sameness 11. Diagnostic Heterogeneities 12. Phenomenlogical and Interdisciplinary Literatures 13. Future Directions 14. Implications for Cultural and Structural Worlds