Patients, consumers and survivors: A case study of mental health service user discourses

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 28-38

  Speed, Ewen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Ireland; Sociology of mental health

Indexed keywords

MENTAL HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; IRELAND; LITERATURE; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL PATIENT; SOCIOLOGY; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; IRELAND; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; SURVIVORS;

EID: 28444446743     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.05.025     Document Type: Article

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