20.55, Books: Discourse Analysis/Sociolinguistics: Galasinski

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Subject: Men's Discourses of Depression: Galasinski

 

	
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Title: Men's Discourses of Depression 
Publication Year: 2008 
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
	   http://www.palgrave.com
	

Book URL: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=277213 


Author: Dariusz Galasinski

Hardback: ISBN:  9780230507524 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 45.00


Abstract:

This ground-breaking study takes up the issue of men's experiences of
depression. It argues that a discourse analytic focus upon the experience
of mental illness offers insights important not only to social scientists
but also to mental health scholars and practitioners. The micro-analytic
examination of discursively constructed experience of depression shows a
complex and uneasy relationship between the illness and those who are ill,
indicating that experience of mental illness escapes attempts to describe
it by means of a few, quite ambivalent diagnostic criteria. The challenge
to the mainstream views of depression comes, Galasi?ski argues, from the
inevitable anchoring of depression experience in the dominant model of
masculinity.  This challenge is embedded within a larger discussion of a
hiatus between the dominant ideologies of depression, stipulating its
universality, with how it is experienced by individual men. Galasi?ski
finishes with a postulate including the focus on the discursive form of how
mentally ill people account for their experiences and thus on their
suffering, rather than the 'symptoms' they display. 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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