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The Importance of Cultural Idioms in the Articulation of the Experience of Mental illness

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ID2474680
AutoresKarine Vanthuyne (0000-0003-3936-5907, École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique, autor correspondente)
Ano2003
Volume31
Fascículo3
Páginas412-433
Data de publicação2003-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthos (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0091-2131 • E-ISSN: 1548-1352
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/eth.2003.31.3.412
OpenAlexW2169490972
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas22

This article analyzes the role cultural idioms play in the articulation of the experience of mental illness. After a brief survey of the literature concerned with the narrative transformation of experience and its expression in the social realm, this article identifies some of the narrative structures of the illness accounts that were collected for this project. I look, on the one hand, at the various languages used in the articulation of "mental illness" and, on the other hand, at the power relations that are activated through the use of those languages. In so doing, I try to determine to what extent it is possible for a sufferer of "mental illness" to empower him or herself through the narrativization and expression of one's experience of mental health problems

Articulation (sociology) · Expression (computer science) · Linguistics · Mental health · Mental illness · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Psychotherapist · Realm · Computer Science · Health Policy Implementation Science · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Psychology · Public Health and Social Inequalities · Social Psychology