‘Connectivity’: Seeking conditions and connections for radical discourses and praxes in health, mental health and social work

Cox, Pat

doi:10.1057/sth.2009.9

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“…Success in this joint endeavour to look for alternatives will demand the critical reflection of legal and health professionals, social workers and researchers committed to social transformation, since, as explained by Casstevens (2010) and Essen et al (2015), the biomedical model is the one that has predominated in the area of mental health, pervading all discourses associated with it and not facilitating the relation between disciplines, an indispensable element in the context of mental health (Cox, 2009; Hausner et al, 2007).…”

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The representation of mental health sufferers in administrative and legal discourse

Marchese

Celerier

2016

Discourse & Society

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This article examines the records of mental incompetence cases filed at a court of the first instance in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Using a Critical Discourse Analysis framework and qualitative methods, we explore the ways in which mental health sufferers are represented. Applying Tone Theory and Appraisal Theory (attitude/judgement subsystem) to our data, we distinguish two discursive zones. In one of them, subjects are constructed with linguistic resources that amount to inscribed expressions of negative social judgement on their capacity. A discursive dichotomy is created whereby people are either competent or incompetent. In the other zone, these negative dichotomous judgements are largely softened by explicitly positive ones, without disappearing altogether. We suggest that mental incompetence, far from being a dichotomous concept, might be gradual.

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confidence: 99%