Patients, Consumers and Survivors : A Case Study of Mental Health Service User Discourses  

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Speed, Ewen

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 1 (Jan. 2006), page 28-38.
Topik: health; ireland; disocurse analysis; sociolofy of mental health

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.1 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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This paper is an exploratory study of ways of talking about mental gealth. Drawing upon data collected from mental health service users in the republic of ireland, it employs discourse analysis within a case study approach to embellish three types of service user identified in the sociaology literature. Rather than being seen as specific types it is proposed that patient, consumer and survivor be regarded as a discursive typology which function as discursive resources for service users. The reconceptualisation of these types, as discourses allows that researcher to gain thicker descriptions of the ways in which service users socially construct their own perspectives on mental illness. Through a process of discourse analysis, discourses of patients, consumers and survivors are extrapolated out from interview tralk with members of mental health social movement organisation or groups. The identified discourses contain intrinsically different ways of talking about mental illness and allude to different conceptions of agency on the part of the service user. it is argued that they offer an insight into bottom up social constructions of mental illness. It is proposed that these discourses suggest that notions of patients, consumers and survivors have entered the service users' discursive canon and that they are actively utilised by service users to socially construct their perspectives on mental health.

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