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    Normality, confession and identity

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    Eva Palmblad

    University College of Health Sciences, Jönköping, Sweden
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    Abstract

    The aim of this article is to analyse the expanding autobiographical literature concerned with neuro‐psychiatric problems from a sociology of knowledge perspective. The literature shows a tendency towards objectivity and distancing, which supports a thesis of proto‐professionalisation. But the accounts are impregnated with frames of understanding other than only scientific ones, with regard to both form and content. The confessional character of the accounts and the prevalence of themes such as truth, falsehood, guilt, shame, trial, redress and reconciliation indicate that moral, existential and even religiously coloured perspectives of interpretation are being applied. By way of conclusion, these autobiographies will be discussed against the background of socio‐political changes in recent times, and also against the background of basic cultural features in modern societies.
    How to Cite: Palmblad, E., 2002. Normality, confession and identity. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 4(2), pp.95–117. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/15017410209510787
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      Published on 02 Jul 2002
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    Palmblad, E., 2002. Normality, confession and identity. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 4(2), pp.95–117. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/15017410209510787

    Palmblad E. Normality, confession and identity. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research. 2002;4(2):95–117. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/15017410209510787

    Palmblad, E. (2002). Normality, confession and identity. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 4(2), 95–117. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/15017410209510787

    1. Palmblad E. Normality, confession and identity. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research. 2002;4(2):95-117. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/15017410209510787

    Palmblad E, ‘Normality, Confession and Identity’ (2002) 4 Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research 95 DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/15017410209510787

    Palmblad, Eva. 2002. “Normality, Confession and Identity”. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research 4 (2): 95–117. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/15017410209510787

    Palmblad, Eva. “Normality, Confession and Identity”. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research 4, no. 2 (2002): 95–117. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/15017410209510787

    Palmblad, E. “Normality, confession and identity”. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, vol. 4, no. 2, 2002, pp. 95–117. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/15017410209510787

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