Social performance and secret ritual: Battling against obsessive-compulsive disorder

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 249-261

  Brooks, Catherine Francis ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

autoethnography; lived experience; mental health and illness; narrative analysis; ritual; stigma; stories; storytelling

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LITERATURE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SYMBOLISM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS TOPIC; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MENTAL HEALTH; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 78651243589     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732310381387     Document Type: Article

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