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THE OMNIPOTENT WORD OF MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS AND THE SILENCE OF DEPRESSION: AN ARGUMENT FOR KRISTEVA'S THERAPEUTIC APPROACH.
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- Author(s): CULBERTSON, CAROLYN
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IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics; Spring2016, Vol. 9 Issue 1, p1-26, 26p
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In cases of depression where linguistic meaning has collapsed, there is good reason to believe that a long-term strategy for recovery must include rehabilitating the depressive person's capacity for meaningful speech. This requires that the patient participate actively in interpreting her own pain. In this essay, I argue that medical diagnosis can tempt patients, particularly women, to circumvent this process of interpretation. To explain this danger, I draw on Julia Kristeva's clinical analyses of depression and recent studies on the correlation between depression and self-silencing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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