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How do individuals having experienced psychosis and living ‘Outside Mental Health’ resist the dominant discourse about psychosis by constructing a counter-discourse?

Sueper, Hannes (2023) How do individuals having experienced psychosis and living ‘Outside Mental Health’ resist the dominant discourse about psychosis by constructing a counter-discourse?

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Abstract:This paper investigates how individuals who have experienced psychosis and have been maltreated in their subsequent stay in a psychiatric hospital resist the dominant discourse about psychosis by constructing a counter-discourse. In this endeavor, a Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FDA) is conducted by analyzing 18 excerpts from the book ‘Outside Mental Health’ published by Will Hall. The research gap targeted with this paper is its application of FDA to autobiographic accounts of ex-patients constructing counter-discourses about psychosis. Four broader discourses are identified: 1) psychosis as a social phenomenon vs. psychosis as a spiritual phenomenon, and 2) the discourse of radical opposition to psychiatry vs. the discourse of reconciliation with psychiatry. Practical implications of these findings regard the circumstances under which the best possible care for people with mental health problems can be given. In particular, the reconciliation approach gains much relevance in this context as it urges to view psychiatry’s wrongdoings as mere symptoms of more deeply entrenched social, political, and economic problems that have real life consequences for the quality of caregiving
Item Type:Essay (Master)
Faculty:BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Subject:71 sociology, 77 psychology
Programme:Psychology MSc (66604)
Link to this item:https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/96878
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