Gendering and schizophrenia : negotiating power relations, gender understandings and experience in psychiatric/patient interactions

This thesis uses a discursive approach to examine psychiatric understandings of gender and schizophrenia in clinical encounters between professionals and patients. Chief reasons for undertaking the research were an unease about the concept of schizophrenia and a lack of attention to interactive psyc...

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Main Author: Williams, Linda Jane
Other Authors: Oswell, D. ; Lynch, M.
Published: Brunel University 2002
Subjects:
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367862