Discourse and Mental Health: Voice, Inequality and Resistance in Medical Settings

ISBN-13: 9781138572652 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 178 str.

Juan Eduardo Bonnin

Opis

This ground breaking research, collected over five years of fieldwork, focuses on the relationships between diversity and inequality in access to mental healthcare through the discourse practices, tactics and strategies deployed by patients and healthcare professionals.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Voice, Singularity and Emergency: A Discursive Perspective on Linguistic Inequality 2. Psychoanalysis in Public Hospitals: Context as a Discursive Problem 3. Invisible Landscapes: Diversity and the Semiosis of Space 4. Diagnosis and Treatment: Sequencing and Exclusion 5. Resisting Exclusion: Patients’ Tactics of Misunderstanding 6. Speaking with the Other’s Voice: An Attempt to Close the Gap 7. Discourse and Activism: Dissent, Protest and Resistance 8. Epilogue

O autorze

Juan Eduardo Bonnin is Researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) and Professor of Discourse Studies at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM). His latest book is Discurso político y discurso religioso en América Latina (Buenos Aires, Santiago Arcos, 2013).