Relational Power and Research Positions

Handbook of Service User Involvement in Mental Health Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 199-211

  Mcgowan, Paddy ^a   Mac Gabhann, Líam ^a   Stevenson, Chris ^a   Walsh, Jim ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Consumer or democratic approaches; Critical theory and consumer led research; Esoteric knowledge and current research techniques for meeting needs of academic and professional; Foucault, biopower and psychiatric mental health research; Power constructed in social interchanges; Service user 'subjectivised' developing subjectivity produced by 'truthes' of biopsychiatry; Service users multiplicity of experiences, needs, and appreciation of problems; Service users and self identified problems; Social constructionism making sense of power in mental healthcare systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892828413     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470743157.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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