Constructing the Self in Mental Health Practice

The discursive production of the 'self in the context of mental health care has potential implications for how the subjects of intervention come to understand and experience themselves. Eating disorders provide an illustrative example of the ways in which conceptualizations of the self that structure mental health practices can be gendered, because they are mainly diagnosed in women and dominant explanations of their origins are feminized. This discourse analytic study examines the gendered nature of mental health workers' constructions of the eating-disordered self through the psychological construct of 'identity', examining the dominant discourses implicated in the feminization of deficient identity, and addressing the implications of this construction for mental health practice

Aesthetics · Construct (python library) · Context (archaeology) · Feminization (sociology) · Human sexuality · Identity (music) · Individualism · Mental health · Political science · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Eating Disorders and Behaviors · Emotional Labor in Professions · Gender Studies · Obesity and Health Practices · Psychology · Social Psychology

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