Presentations of Complex Mental Illness in Media and Medical Discourses: A Protocol for a Corpus-Assisted Study
Abstract
This study aims to conduct an in-depth corpus-assisted discourse analysis to explore how complex mental illnesses are presented in UK newspaper articles and medical case studies. Attention will be given to the identification of discursive presentation that create and reinforce stigma against mental illness. This study is funded by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh.
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Benson, K. T., Donnellan, M. B., & Morey, L. C. (2017). Gender-related differential item functioning in the DSM-IV/DSM-5-III (alternative model) diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder. Personality Disorder, 8, 87-93.
Cariola, L. A. (2017). Presentations of borderline personality disorder in the UK press: A corpus-assisted discourse analysis. Institute of Group Analysis, London, May 2017.
Clement, S., Schauman, O., Graham, T., Maggioni, F. et al. (2015). What is the impact of mental health-related stigma on help-seeking? A systemic review of quantitative and qualitative studies. Psychological Medicine, 45, 11-27.
GOV (2017). The Government’s response to the five-year forward view of mental health. Retrieved from https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/582120/FYFV_mental_health__government_response.pdf
Mental Health Foundation (2015). Fundamental facts about mental health. London, UK: Mental Health Foundation. Retrieved from https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/sites/default/files/fundamental-facts-15.pdf
Mestdagh, A., & Hansen, B. (2014). Stigma in patients with schizophrenia receiving community mental health care: a review of qualitative studies. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 49, 79-87.
Rayson, P. (2008). From key words to key semantic domains. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 13, 519-549.
Reavley, N. J., Morgan, A. J., & Jorm, A. F. (2016). Predictors of experiences of discrimination and positive treatment in people with mental health problems: findings from an Australian national survey. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 52, 269-277.
Thoits, P. A. (2016). “I am not mentally ill”. Identifying deflection as a form of stigma resistance. Journal of Health and Social Behaviour, 57, 135-151.
TNS BMRB (2015). Attitudes to mental illness research report 2014. London, UK: TNS-BMRB. Retrieved from:
https://www.time-to-change.org.uk/sites/default/files/Attitudes_to_mental_illness_2014_report_final_0.pdf
Whalen, D. J., Scott, L. N., Jakubowski, K. P., McMakin, D. L., Hipwell, A. E. et al., (2014). Affective behavior during mother-daughter conflict and borderline personality disorder severity across adolescence. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 5, 88-96.
Published
17-Jun-2017
How to Cite
Cariola, L. (2017). Presentations of Complex Mental Illness in Media and Medical Discourses: A Protocol for a Corpus-Assisted Study. Language and Psychoanalysis, 6(2), 99-102. https://doi.org/10.7565/landp.v6i2.1574
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