'These psychiatrists rate themselves as gods': Disengagement and engagement discourses of people living with severe mental illness

Communication and Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-53

  Chase, Mike ^a   Zinken, Jörg ^a   Costall, Alan ^a   Watts, Jay ^b   Priebe, Stefan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWHAM CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Disengagement; Identity; Mental health services; Mental illness; Positioning analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROL; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDENTITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SOCIOMETRIC STATUS; UNITED KINGDOM; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IDENTIFICATION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LONDON; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; NARRATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SOCIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 78049399065     PISSN: 16121783     EISSN: 16133625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/cam.v7il.43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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