Mental health and identity: the evaluation of a drop‐in centre

Hall, Sarah; Cheston, Richard

doi:10.1002/casp.639

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“…Identity is strongly dependent on the groups we belong to (Tajfel, 1981). Many people with mental illnesses are in a situation where they experience a conflict between the positive value of belonging to a group of other patients, and the danger of stigmatization resulting from being identified with that group (Hall & Cheston, 2002). It is of interest to gain insight into how they tackle this dilemma and negotiate their identities in different situations and contexts, where the dilemma between the need to belong and the danger of stigmatization is accentuated.…”

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The Negotiation of Identity among People with Mental Illness in Rural Communities

Ekeland

Bergem

2006

Community Ment Health J

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Integration and normalization are goals within the community-based care of people with mental illness. The implementation of this care policy has led to increased contact between people with mental illness and so-called normal people and society at large. But we know little about how this change affects the former patients' identity and experience of stigma and stereotyping. This study is based on qualitative interviews with people with mental illness (N=15) living in rural communities in four different municipalities. The focus in the study is on the informants' subjective experiences and the results show that they adapt in different ways, depending on how they negotiate their identity. Those who accept their role as "mental patients" seem to have easier access to services, they experience less stigmatization and fewer conflicts with their surroundings than those who oppose the patient role. Seem from our informants' perspectives there seems to be a simple definition of integration: Being integrated is feeling accepted as yourself. Some implications for policy and mental health services are discussed.

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The Negotiation of Identity among People with Mental Illness in Rural Communities

Ekeland

Bergem

2006

Community Ment Health J

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“…Corrignan, 1998;Corrignan, Thompson, Lambert, Sangster, Noel, & Campbell, 2003;Crisp, 2005;Crisp, Gelder, Rix, Meltzer, & Rowlands, 2000;Holmes & Phillip, 1998;Overton & Medina, 2008;Stewart, Keel, & Schiavo, 2006). Research investigating groups perceived to be lower in status, including people with mental health problems (Basic Behavioural Science Task Force of the National Advisory Mental Health Council, 1996;Hall & Cheston, 2002;Iqbal, Birchwood, Chadwick, & Trower, 2000), and also ethnic minority groups and women (Katz, Joiner Jr., & Kwon, 2002;Tajfel & Turner, 1979) has linked membership of a devalued social group to negative consequences for social identity and emotional health, such as an increased risk for depression and low self-esteem.…”

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“…People who have mental health problems are perceived by some members of society to belong to a lower status group (Hall & Cheston, 2002) and can experience stigmatisation and discrimination (e.g. Corrignan, 1998;Corrignan, Thompson, Lambert, Sangster, Noel, & Campbell, 2003;Crisp, 2005;Crisp, Gelder, Rix, Meltzer, & Rowlands, 2000;Holmes & Phillip, 1998;Overton & Medina, 2008;Stewart, Keel, & Schiavo, 2006).…”

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Social identity in eating disorders

Ison

Kent

2010

Euro Eating Disorders Rev

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This qualitative study examines social identity in eating disorders. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight females with an eating disorder diagnosis. Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was used to analyse the data. Three superordinate themes emerged from participants' accounts: (1) Shifts in social identity; (2) Outgroup perceptions and influences and (3) Eating disorders as an ingroup. The findings suggested that a person's social identity can change during the course of having an eating disorder, and an interaction between social identity and a person's recovery from an eating disorder was proposed. Clinical implications, methodological issues, and directions for future research were discussed.

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“…Day centres can be heterogeneous landscapes, with imagined and real boundaries, as well as spaces of performance and negotiation based on the consensual psychological and behavioural norms associated with cultural perceptions regarding mental distress. However, these positions of multiplicity can create tensions, which trouble the notion that day centres always provide a therapeutic space (Hall & Cheston, 2002). Furthermore, knowledge of how day centres are structurally organised, such as through the specificity of functions of certain rooms (e.g.…”

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“…Consequently day centres can form spaces that provide a platform from which a micro collective of 'us' (service users) versus 'them' (the wider society) can emerge (Conradson, 2003). As such the somewhat romanticised notion of day centres being a space that facilitate mutual emotional support and socialisation may not relate to the everyday practices through which such spaces are produced (Hall & Cheston, 2002). In this paper we seek to understand how perceived diagnostic identities come to act as affective forces that order and shape the social relations that constitute day centre space.…”

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“Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know”: The pervasive socio-medical and spatial coding of mental health day centres

Smith

Tucker

2015

Emotion, Space and Society

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This paper explores the experiences of long-term, mental health service users in community day centres. Academic literature often focuses on macro-level analysis of the social, political and geographical position with society of those with mental health distress. In doing so service users can be positioned as a largely homogenous group who often reside at the boundaries of society due to the negative social representations of mental distress. Community spaces, such as day centres, can be presented as 'therapeutic spaces', in which service users engage in consensual and non-judgemental behaviour. Such accounts suggest a high level of mutual camaraderie exists within day centres.However, this approach can negate the realities encountered by service users on a daily basis, where perceived associations with medical ascriptions such as 'depression' and 'schizophrenia' can influence service users' identity and behaviour, and acceptance by other members. In this paper we develop a relational understanding of the production of day centre space, constituted through discursive and materially-embodied forces. We argue that Spinoza's writings on affect are a particularly useful way to analyse the ways that service user experience is produced through practices that incorporate social and individual discursive activity, which comes to be indelibly linked to bodies' "capacities to act". In doing so we hope to emphasise how important embodied relational dynamics are to the production and experience of day centres, and the potential value of a Spinozist account of affect to do so. Consequently the paper works up an argument that key spaces in community mental health be explored in terms of the way spaces are produced through "Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know": The pervasive socio-medical and spatial coding of mental health day centre spaces 2 affective practices that are inter-personal, rather than shaping service users as a homogenous group. Key to this process, as we will see, is the role of perceived diagnostic identity, derived from embodied activity, as an organising affective force.

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Mental health and identity: the evaluation of a drop‐in centre

Cited by 27 publications

References 8 publications

The Negotiation of Identity among People with Mental Illness in Rural Communities

The Negotiation of Identity among People with Mental Illness in Rural Communities

Social identity in eating disorders

“Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know”: The pervasive socio-medical and spatial coding of mental health day centres

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