Structuring the Self: Moral Implications of Getting an ADHD Diagnosis

Nielsen, Mikka

doi:10.1080/00141844.2017.1362454

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“…There is an ongoing question in Western European ideas of mental illness: is it a biological condition (and thus medically treatable), or is it a moral, social, and perhaps generational problem, a problematic interplay between an individual and her surroundings? (see Foucault, 1988; Hacking, 1998; Jenkins, 2015: 3; Nielsen, 2018: 895). The question points to a tension-filled relationship between mind and body and between biological brain and cognitive mind in Western thought (see Nagel, 1974: 435; for anthropological discussion of theories of mind see Keane, 2008).…”

Section: The Elusive Category Of Mental Vulnerabilitymentioning

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The merits of context: Unfolding mental vulnerability as category and experience

Christiansen

2020

Ethnography

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‘Mentally vulnerable’ young people are a strong focal point in public debate and policy in Denmark at present, and a variety of cultural activities are now being offered to them. Building on ethnographic fieldwork (April 2018-August 2019) with so-called mentally vulnerable young women (aged 18-36) who meet in literature reading groups, this article seeks to connect the reading group with the phenomenon of ‘mental vulnerability’, first through a review of the historical emergence and contemporary use of the term, and second by considering what (painful) experiences the term signifies for individuals belonging to this category. This contextualization involves a discussion of literature on the role of context in anthropological analyses. The article concludes with an empirical contradiction: the reading group provides a sanctuary from everyday demands for purposefulness and productivity, but it can also be used as a strategy for navigating such demands.

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The merits of context: Unfolding mental vulnerability as category and experience

Christiansen

2020

Ethnography

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“…To be sure, contemporary work continues to grapple with the questions that have driven interest in ethics in recent years, documenting how people create spaces for freedom and self‐fashioning through practices of self‐reflection, reasoning and moral judgement. Nielsen () uses the concept of the ‘moral laboratory’ to better understand ADHD diagnosis. Huang's () study shows how mobile phones‐enabled ‘wrong‐number’ relationships are helping women employed in microcredit schemes to renegotiate purdah .…”

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European social anthropology in 2018: an increasingly recursive public

Hughes

2019

Soc Anthropol

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In 2018, social anthropology finds itself increasingly concerned with its technical, legal and political conditions of possibility. The long‐term effects of austerity, financialisation and the technological transformation of media on teaching, research and publishing have led to intense struggles over the labour and property regimes underpinning the discipline. In responding to these challenges, anthropologists seem to be re‐conceptualising their own personhood and labour through the diverse conceptualisations of their interlocutors. However, it is also important to remember what makes social anthropology and its unique professional challenges but a small facet of a larger human condition. By way of conclusion, I offer kinship (the public's constitutive other) as one potential means of grappling with the limitations of social anthropology's own publicity.

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Negotiating Normalcy: Epistemic Errors in Self-Diagnosing Late-ADHD

Jønsson

2025

Cult Med Psychiatry

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Structuring the Self: Moral Implications of Getting an ADHD Diagnosis

Cited by 3 publications

References 23 publications

The merits of context: Unfolding mental vulnerability as category and experience

The merits of context: Unfolding mental vulnerability as category and experience

European social anthropology in 2018: an increasingly recursive public

Negotiating Normalcy: Epistemic Errors in Self-Diagnosing Late-ADHD

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