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'These psychiatrists rate themselves as gods': Disengagement and engagement discourses of people living with severe mental illness (2010)
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Chase, M., Zinken, J., Costall, A., Watts, J., & Priebe, S. (2010). 'These psychiatrists rate themselves as gods': Disengagement and engagement discourses of people living with severe mental illness. Communication and Medicine, 7(1), 43-53

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.