This research began in conversations I had with women, diagnosed
with a mental illness, whilst employed as a social work
practitioner at a women's health centre. The problematics of having
been given a psychiatric classification prompted the phrase 'living
with a label', which became the focus of our co-operative inquiry.
Psychiatric diagnoses are determined and delivered through the
discourses of biomedicine. The women I researched with, loosely
connected as mental health service recipients, had often been
positioned as 'subject' to an objective biomedical gaze. Through a
process of exploration and discovery this project was designed to
generate understandings that could be useful to the women who
participated. Not only is there a gap in the mental health
knowledge continuum, but the need for such insights are made doubly
pertinent at the beginning of the twenty first century as
diagnostic trends suggest that morbidity rates will continue to
increase. Our experience of researching together, and allowing the
'researched' room to know and act, produced possibilities, and also
created conundrums, all of which were celebrated. This book will be
particularly relevant for feminist researchers and mental health
practitioners.
General
Imprint: |
VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.
|
Country of origin: |
Germany |
Release date: |
2008 |
First published: |
2008 |
Authors: |
Jennie Gray
|
Dimensions: |
244 x 170 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-8364-3456-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Psychology >
General
|
LSN: |
3-8364-3456-3 |
Barcode: |
9783836434560 |
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