"Fathers, Fatherhood and Mental Illness" provides the first
book-length study examining fathers' experiences of mental illness.
It argues that a discourse analytic focus upon the experience of
mental illness offers important insights not only to social
scientists but also to mental health scholars and practitioners.
Using micro-analytic discourse analysis, it shows that mental
illness introduces feelings of failure and rejection in fatherhood,
stripping away its socially expected authority. This causes an
added degree of suffering to mentally ill fathers, as the idea of
what it means to be a 'good father' is undermined by mental
illness, thus meaning that fathers with a mental illness must
carefully manage their identities and relationships. The book
finishes with a postulate of a stronger focus on the discursive
form of how mentally ill people account for their experiences and
thus on their suffering.
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