Social and existential alienation experienced by people with long-term mental illness

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 373-380

  Erdner, Anette ^a,d   Magnusson, Annabella ^b   Nyström, Maria ^c   Lützén, Kim ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c Ersta Skondal University College   (Sweden)

^d NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alienation; Ethnography; Hermeneutic interpretation; Mental illness

Indexed keywords

ALIENATION; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; ETHNOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IDENTITY; INTERVIEW; MEMORY; MENTAL PATIENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STIGMATIZATION; SUPPORT GROUP; SWEDEN; ADULT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ALIENATION; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SWEDEN;

EID: 33644873224     PISSN: 02839318     EISSN: 14716712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2005.00364.x     Document Type: Article

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