Graduate Student, English
Thesis Title: Contemporary Discourses of Mental Health
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Dr. Kevin Harvey
Professor Ron Carter |
About
My thesis considers the contemporary discourses of mental health conditions in the language of lay patients and practicing clinicians. Specifically, I utilise tools from corpus linguistics and discourse analysis to consider discussions of anorexia and depression held in web-based patient communities and also in face-to-face meetings of primary care physicians.
My intention is to illuminate areas of convergence and potential dissonance in lay and professional understandings of these problematic conditions and the ramifications for these upon clinical encounters. In light of current debates in the field of mental health, I also consider the notion of medicalisation and the verbal negotiation of self-identity in the face of medical diagnosis.
Contact Information
| Homepage: | http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~aezweb/postgraduate/s |
| Address: | School of English Studies
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