M L Kessing
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5901 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | M L Kessing |
| NOMBRES | M L |
| APELLIDO | Kessing |
| FIRMA | KESSING M L |
| AFILIACIONES | VIVE - The Danish Center for Social Science Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0591-8035 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Emotion work, affect and intergenerational ties
Therapeutic culture has penetrated several spheres of social life, offering concepts, categories and metaphors to make sense of selfhood and the social world. This article contributes to sociological discussions of therapeutic culture by exploring children's diverse therapeutic engagements through an investigation of support groups for children of parents with mental illness. Empirically, the article draws on novel video recordings of support gro…
Ethnography of User Involvement
This article explores the methodological dilemmas that arise when conducting ethnography of user involvement in mental healthcare settings. Public health systems commonly integrate the experiences and insights of service users to enhance service quality and "empower" participants. In health research, there is a growing interest in coproducing research with participants, leading to an expanding body of literature on collaborative research methodol…
Empathetic knowledge
While many sociologists have conceptualised medical and experiential modes of knowing health and illness, less attention has been given to the concept of empathetic knowledge. That is, knowledge derived from close association with others living with a particular condition. This article investigates empathetic modes of knowing among families marked by illness, drawing on 52 h of video recordings of support group sessions for children of parents wi…
The role of non-human actors and the body in peer support groups for children of parents with mental illness
This article employs ideas from the ontological turn and Actor-Network Theory to examine peer support groups for children of parents with mental illness. Analysing video recordings of group sessions, the article reveals that 'how' peer support is enacted do not solely depend on the children and group facilitators. Non-human actors and the body play a crucial role in shaping peer support communities, producing diverse outcomes depending on the ass…
Self-casting and alter-casting
Within mental health services, the recovery model has been a guiding philosophy over the past decades. This model stresses ‘person-centred care’ and focuses on assisting service users to live a meaningful and hopeful life even if their illness has not been cured. As part of the recovery orientation, ‘peer workers’ (PWs), i.e. people with lived experiences of mental illness, are increasingly employed within mental health services. In this article,…
Doing peer work in mental health services
Mental health services are increasingly employing peer workers (PWs), individuals who have lived experiences with mental health problems, to support patients and be part of mental health care teams. While the employment of PWs continues to increase, little is known about how the function unfolds in practice. This paper explores the broader context in which the PWs navigate and the concrete outcomes and everyday issues that exist at the individual…
Negotiating mental illness across the lay-professional divide
Patient involvement is a prominent policy aim in modern health care. Today, mental health services employ peer workers (PWs) who have personal experiences with mental illness. Based on 22 interviews with PWs and 26 audio recordings of real-life consultations, we show how PWs talk about their personal experiences as professional qualifications. Furthermore, we demonstrate how in real-life encounters, PWs and patients convert personal experiences i…
We Have Equal Opportunities - in Theory
This article reports on the findings from a qualitative, longitudinal study on lay perceptions of opportunity structures among young adults in Denmark. Previous research suggests that people often underestimate the extent of inequality and that rising inequality aggravates misperceptions. Our study deepens the understanding of the multi-layered processes that form meritocratic beliefs, and it identifies key factors at the macro-, meso- and micro-…
It is a different world in here
This paper explores the social relations between inpatients in psychiatric wards. Combining Barker's (2002) concept of 'collective illness identity' with Nelson's (1993) concept of 'epistemological communities', I draw attention to the inpatients' collective identification and experiential knowledge. Through the analysis, three aspects of the inpatients' relationships are unfolded. First, how the inpatients, through bodily expressions and narrati…
Stigma, problem drug use, and welfare state encounters
Aim: This study examined the ways in which citizens who have self-identified as having problem drug use experienced welfare state encounters in Denmark and considered the findings in the context of the social investment paradigm.Methods: We conducted qualitative interviews with 106 Danish citizens who identified as having a problem drug use. The interviews were transcribed and coded in Nvivo to classify different types of welfare state encounters…
It feels as if time has come to a standstill’
This paper focuses on the everyday lives of young people with a severe mental illness living temporarily at a social psychiatric housing facility in Denmark. In the paper we take a temporal approach to the analysis of this and we draw on Henri Lefebvre’s work on rhythm analysis to investigate the differences between the rhythms of everyday life within the institution and the rhythms of what is perceived as the everyday life of ‘ordinary’ youth. W…
We Have Equal Opportunities - in Theory
This article reports on the findings from a qualitative, longitudinal study on lay perceptions of opportunity structures among young adults in Denmark. Previous research suggests that people often underestimate the extent of inequality and that rising inequality aggravates misperceptions. Our study deepens the understanding of the multi-layered processes that form meritocratic beliefs, and it identifies key factors at the macro-, meso- and micro-…
Doing peer work in mental health services
Mental health services are increasingly employing peer workers (PWs), individuals who have lived experiences with mental health problems, to support patients and be part of mental health care teams. While the employment of PWs continues to increase, little is known about how the function unfolds in practice. This paper explores the broader context in which the PWs navigate and the concrete outcomes and everyday issues that exist at the individual…
Negotiating mental illness across the lay-professional divide
Patient involvement is a prominent policy aim in modern health care. Today, mental health services employ peer workers (PWs) who have personal experiences with mental illness. Based on 22 interviews with PWs and 26 audio recordings of real-life consultations, we show how PWs talk about their personal experiences as professional qualifications. Furthermore, we demonstrate how in real-life encounters, PWs and patients convert personal experiences i…
It is a different world in here
This paper explores the social relations between inpatients in psychiatric wards. Combining Barker's (2002) concept of 'collective illness identity' with Nelson's (1993) concept of 'epistemological communities', I draw attention to the inpatients' collective identification and experiential knowledge. Through the analysis, three aspects of the inpatients' relationships are unfolded. First, how the inpatients, through bodily expressions and narrati…
It feels as if time has come to a standstill’
This paper focuses on the everyday lives of young people with a severe mental illness living temporarily at a social psychiatric housing facility in Denmark. In the paper we take a temporal approach to the analysis of this and we draw on Henri Lefebvre’s work on rhythm analysis to investigate the differences between the rhythms of everyday life within the institution and the rhythms of what is perceived as the everyday life of ‘ordinary’ youth. W…
Self-casting and alter-casting
Within mental health services, the recovery model has been a guiding philosophy over the past decades. This model stresses ‘person-centred care’ and focuses on assisting service users to live a meaningful and hopeful life even if their illness has not been cured. As part of the recovery orientation, ‘peer workers’ (PWs), i.e. people with lived experiences of mental illness, are increasingly employed within mental health services. In this article,…
The role of non-human actors and the body in peer support groups for children of parents with mental illness
This article employs ideas from the ontological turn and Actor-Network Theory to examine peer support groups for children of parents with mental illness. Analysing video recordings of group sessions, the article reveals that 'how' peer support is enacted do not solely depend on the children and group facilitators. Non-human actors and the body play a crucial role in shaping peer support communities, producing diverse outcomes depending on the ass…
It feels as if time has come to a standstill’
This paper focuses on the everyday lives of young people with a severe mental illness living temporarily at a social psychiatric housing facility in Denmark. In the paper we take a temporal approach to the analysis of this and we draw on Henri Lefebvre’s work on rhythm analysis to investigate the differences between the rhythms of everyday life within the institution and the rhythms of what is perceived as the everyday life of ‘ordinary’ youth. W…
Stigma, problem drug use, and welfare state encounters
Aim: This study examined the ways in which citizens who have self-identified as having problem drug use experienced welfare state encounters in Denmark and considered the findings in the context of the social investment paradigm.Methods: We conducted qualitative interviews with 106 Danish citizens who identified as having a problem drug use. The interviews were transcribed and coded in Nvivo to classify different types of welfare state encounters…
It is a different world in here
This paper explores the social relations between inpatients in psychiatric wards. Combining Barker's (2002) concept of 'collective illness identity' with Nelson's (1993) concept of 'epistemological communities', I draw attention to the inpatients' collective identification and experiential knowledge. Through the analysis, three aspects of the inpatients' relationships are unfolded. First, how the inpatients, through bodily expressions and narrati…
We Have Equal Opportunities - in Theory
This article reports on the findings from a qualitative, longitudinal study on lay perceptions of opportunity structures among young adults in Denmark. Previous research suggests that people often underestimate the extent of inequality and that rising inequality aggravates misperceptions. Our study deepens the understanding of the multi-layered processes that form meritocratic beliefs, and it identifies key factors at the macro-, meso- and micro-…
Doing peer work in mental health services
Mental health services are increasingly employing peer workers (PWs), individuals who have lived experiences with mental health problems, to support patients and be part of mental health care teams. While the employment of PWs continues to increase, little is known about how the function unfolds in practice. This paper explores the broader context in which the PWs navigate and the concrete outcomes and everyday issues that exist at the individual…
Negotiating mental illness across the lay-professional divide
Patient involvement is a prominent policy aim in modern health care. Today, mental health services employ peer workers (PWs) who have personal experiences with mental illness. Based on 22 interviews with PWs and 26 audio recordings of real-life consultations, we show how PWs talk about their personal experiences as professional qualifications. Furthermore, we demonstrate how in real-life encounters, PWs and patients convert personal experiences i…
Self-casting and alter-casting
Within mental health services, the recovery model has been a guiding philosophy over the past decades. This model stresses ‘person-centred care’ and focuses on assisting service users to live a meaningful and hopeful life even if their illness has not been cured. As part of the recovery orientation, ‘peer workers’ (PWs), i.e. people with lived experiences of mental illness, are increasingly employed within mental health services. In this article,…
Emotion work, affect and intergenerational ties
Therapeutic culture has penetrated several spheres of social life, offering concepts, categories and metaphors to make sense of selfhood and the social world. This article contributes to sociological discussions of therapeutic culture by exploring children's diverse therapeutic engagements through an investigation of support groups for children of parents with mental illness. Empirically, the article draws on novel video recordings of support gro…
Ethnography of User Involvement
This article explores the methodological dilemmas that arise when conducting ethnography of user involvement in mental healthcare settings. Public health systems commonly integrate the experiences and insights of service users to enhance service quality and "empower" participants. In health research, there is a growing interest in coproducing research with participants, leading to an expanding body of literature on collaborative research methodol…
Empathetic knowledge
While many sociologists have conceptualised medical and experiential modes of knowing health and illness, less attention has been given to the concept of empathetic knowledge. That is, knowledge derived from close association with others living with a particular condition. This article investigates empathetic modes of knowing among families marked by illness, drawing on 52 h of video recordings of support group sessions for children of parents wi…
The role of non-human actors and the body in peer support groups for children of parents with mental illness
This article employs ideas from the ontological turn and Actor-Network Theory to examine peer support groups for children of parents with mental illness. Analysing video recordings of group sessions, the article reveals that 'how' peer support is enacted do not solely depend on the children and group facilitators. Non-human actors and the body play a crucial role in shaping peer support communities, producing diverse outcomes depending on the ass…
Psychology (11 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (8 obras) · Mental health (7 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Psychiatry (6 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras) · Social science (6 obras) · Mental illness (5 obras) · Psychotherapist (4 obras)