“This is for life”: A discursive analysis of the dilemmas of constructing diagnostic identities

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Tucker, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dilemma; Discourse analysis; Risk; Schizophrenia diagnosis; Service; Users

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969940542     PISSN: 14385627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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