Uncontrollable behavior or mental illness? Exploring constructions of bulimia using Q methodology

Uncontrollable behavior or mental illness? Exploring constructions of bulimia using Q methodology

BACKGROUND In medical and psychological literature bulimia is commonly described as a mental illness. However, from a social constructionist perspective the meaning of bulimia will always be socially and historically situated and multiple. Thus, there is always the possibility for other understandings or constructions of bulimia to circulate in our culture, with each having distinct real-world ...

Using Q Methodology to Discuss Mental Models of Physicians Concerning Key Effective Factors of Cancer

Introduction: Promoting community health and preventing dangerous diseases such as cancer, especially in metropolitan areas such as Tehran, today may have become the main concern and concern for managers, authorities and health professionals in the country. Achieving this goal involves the deployment of active information networks and effective systems for collecting information and identifying...

Mental Health or Mental Illness

re^ reader daring enough to venture beyond the glaring cover will find his a?^s in this concise treatise on Mental Health and Illness. Jhe author feels strongly that: the problem of mental illness and abnormal functioning cannot be solved unless more people, having learned about the problem, will take an active Part instead of leaving the whole situation in the hands of psychiatrists". Later he...

Mental Health—Or Mental Illness?

Methodology and mental illness: resistance and restorying.

Concerns with social justice have been traditionally associated with a modernist concept of the individual whose actions express an underlying, essential and unified self. This paper compares the usefulness of two methodologies (post-structuralist and narrative) that are based on a rejection of identity of a unified self and compares their usefulness in relation to the development of a social j...