The complexity of non-sense making

A proposal of complex medical sociology of mental disorders

Bibliographic Data

ID22333330
AuthorsManuel Torres Cubeiro (Collegio Carlo Alberto, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume8
Issue2
Pages67-91
Publication date2018-05-03
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociología y tecnociencia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1989-8487 • E-ISSN: 1989-8487
PublisherUniversidad de Valladolid (PUBLISHER • ES)
DOI10.24197/st.2.2018.67-91
OpenAlexW2803093781
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited7

The article describes social complexity of the biographical accounts of those connected with a mental disorder diagnosis in Galicia, a Northwest Spanish Autonomous Community. 147 biographies associated with Mental Disorders diagnosis (MD) have been collected and gathered in three groups differently linked to these conditions. Our first group has lived with a diagnosis of MD for at least 10 years (65 interviews and data from 300 people). Our second cluster of people shares their lives with those with a MD diagnosis mainly with a family relative bound (19 interviews and data from 300 families). Our third group, gathers Galician mental health medical professionals from three mental health units and other mental health facilities which medically and administratively manage people with a MD diagnosis and their relatives (63 biographies). Using data from these biographies, we have constructed three interconnected biographical profiles early published (Torres Cubeiro 2009b) using a social systems theory approach based in Niklas Luhmann sociology

Medical sociology · Mental health · Psychiatry · Public health · Sociology · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Nursing · Psychology · Psychology Research and Bibliometrics · Public Health and Social Inequalities · Social Psychology

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