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‘In sight, out of mind’: The experiences of the compliantly engaged community psychiatric out-patient (2011)
Journal Article

Research on engagement within communitybased psychiatric services in the UK has mainly focussed on factors related to those 'at risk' of non-attendance or non-compliance, with the tacit assumption that those in regular attendance are largely content... Read More about ‘In sight, out of mind’: The experiences of the compliantly engaged community psychiatric out-patient.

'These psychiatrists rate themselves as gods': Disengagement and engagement discourses of people living with severe mental illness (2010)
Journal Article

Positioning analysis, a variant of discourse analysis, was used to explore the narratives of 40 psychiatric patients (11 females and 29 males; mean age = 40 years) who had manifest difficulties with engagement with statutory mental health services. P... Read More about 'These psychiatrists rate themselves as gods': Disengagement and engagement discourses of people living with severe mental illness.