Dansk doktoravhandling om brukermedvirkning

Listening to Patients. A Study of Illness Discourses, Patient Identities, and User Involvement in Contemporary Psychiatric Practice 

Avhandlingen er skrevet på engelsk, men med et sammendrag også på dansk.

På baggrund af analyserne argumenteres der for, at for at kunne praktisere en mere demokratisk grad af brugerinddragelse, er de professionelle nødt til at blive støttet af et system der er mere åbent for multiple definitioner af psykisk lidelse og patienthed, i deres forsøg på at involvere patienternes perspektiver. Ligeledes peges der på vigtigheden af at involvere brugerne af det psykiatriske system i langt højere grad til at udvikle modeller for brugerinddragelse. Dette kan åbne op for, at mangfoldigheden og diversiteten i patienternes perspektiver tages alvorligt, også når disse adskiller sig betydeligt fra traditionelle psykiatriske forståelser.

Om sosial konstruksjon av psykisk lidelse

Fra sammendraget til den australske studien “You can’t put it in a box and tie it with a ribbon”: The consumer movement and the social construction of mental illness, som foreligger i fulltekst:  

First, the social construction of mental illness is drawn up by two principle discourses: professionals pathologize mental illness and consumers contextualize mental illness... Second, analysis of the social practices of mental health care settings as revealed in language foregrounded central concerns around administration. Mental health care as an institution has produced what Foucault (1978) names “procedural techniques” for recording information. These are techniques of control that prescribe the rules of conduct for professionals and consumers in the institution of mental health care. These techniques reduce the agency and personal responsibility of professionals and marginalize the self-knowledge of consumers. 

Fra "psykisk sykdom" til "hjernesykdom"?

Debate on whether the term "mental health" is misleading will take place at the 20th European Congress of Psychiatry. Dr Baker will present the pros for changing the designation from mental illness to brain illness.

Psychiatric Times