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

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2474680
AutoresKarine Vanthuyne (0000-0003-3936-5907, École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique, autor de correspondencia)
Año2003
Volumen31
Número3
Páginas412-433
Fecha de publicación2003-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthos (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0091-2131 • E-ISSN: 1548-1352
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/eth.2003.31.3.412
OpenAlexW2169490972
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias 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