The Patient-Enemy: How Derrida Helps Explain Psychiatry’s Cruelty and Care
Mad in America
JULY 9, 2024
I n 1957, John Chapman published an article to the American Journal of Medicine titled “Peregrinating Problem Patients—Munchausen’s Syndrome” The article describes his hospital’s frustration in dealing with a patient who he calls a “professional hospital bum” The patient readmitted numerous times to the same hospital, suffering from an idiopathic bleeding disorder; however, upon further inspection, the hospital came to believe that his bleeding disorder was pa
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