What Is Me? What Is Bipolar?

摘要

What is me? What is bipolar?' My patients ask me this question all the time. Here Nancy Potter provides a philosophical response grounded in the construction of narratives, what philosophers call herme-neutics, generally seen as part of the postmodernist way of thinking.In my experiences with people who have bipolar disorder, the question of the self, a dilemma in the healthy, takes on new salience, although I would do so without truckling to the postmodernist conventional wisdom of our day.