Context Patients as educators (teaching intimate physical examination) first appeared in the
1960s. Since then, rationales for the active involvement of patients as educators have been …

Although social constructionism (SC) and Foucauldian discourse analysis (FDA) are well
established constructionist analytical methods, this article propose that Foucauldian …

In 1981, Toronto activist Mel Starkman wrote:"" An important new movement is sweeping
through the western world.... The'mad,'the oppressed, the ex-inmates of society's asylums …

How do we understand mental health problems in their social context? A former BMA
Medical Book of the Year award winner, this book provides a sociological analysis of major …

Combining a scholar's care and thoroughness with searing personal insight, David A. Karp
brings the private experience of depression into sharp relief, drawing on a remarkable series …

People who experience psychological distress also experience social injustice. This
injustice impacts upon their social, economic and political lives. For example, the social …

The chapter argues that there is a natural alliance between SFL and one leading brand of
discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis (CDA). This alliance could be taken further …

As involvement of consumers/survivors in planning, delivery, and evaluation of services has
increased, expectations of authentic and effective engagement, versus tokenism, have also …

Psychiatry and psychology have constructed a mental health system that does no justice to
the problems it claims to understand and creates multiple problems for its users. Yet the …

This paper critiques the conventional concept of 'insight'within the mental status assessment,
seeking to unseat its taken‐for‐granted definition and the status it has acquired in research …