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Psychocentricity and participant profiles: Implications for lexical processing among multilinguals [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2014
Lexical processing among bilinguals is often affected by complex patterns of individual experience. In this paper we discuss the psychocentric perspective on language representation and processing, which highlights the centrality of individual experience
Gary eLibben   +3 more
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Inventing Mental Health First Aid: The Problem of Psychocentrism

open access: yesStudies in Social Justice, 2016
This article provides a sociopolitical critique of contemporary Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) discourses. The concept of psychocentrism, adopted as an analytical tool, critiques the problematic nature of MHFA premises and practices that automate, expedite, enforce, and normalize the global movement to psychiatrize human distress.
A. Lee Hoxter, David Lester
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Interrogating psychocentrism and the role of a white researcher [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This work represents a culmination of experiences of individuals who have been subjected to adolescent psychiatrization and particularly, the influences of psychocentrism. This work builds upon the notion of psychocentrism as a social justice issue by exploring how its’ embeddedness within dominant mental health discourse functions to disregard the ...
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The Social Production of Psychocentric Knowledge in Suicidology

open access: yesSocial Epistemology, 2020
Suicidology, the scientific study of suicide and suicide prevention, constructs suicide as primarily a question of individual mental health. Despite recent engagement with suicide from a broader public health perspective, and efforts of critical suicide studies scholars and activists to widen the disciplinary and theoretical base of suicidology, the ...
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İçe Dönük ve Dışa Dönük Turistlerin Yiyeceklere Yönelik Neofobik ve Neofilik Eğilimleri (The Neophobic and Neophilic Tendencies of Psychocentric and Allocentric Tourists Towards Food)

open access: yesJournal of Tourism and Gastronomy Studies, 2023
Bu çalışmanın amacı dışa dönük (allocentric) ve içe dönük (psychocentric) turist tipolojileri ile bireylerin yiyeceklere karşı neofobik veya neofilik eğilimleri arasındaki ilişkiyi incelemektir. Bu amaç doğrultusunda gerçekleştirilen çalışma bir alan araştırmasıdır.
Seren BAYDAN ÇAĞMAN   +1 more
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Psychocentrism and Homelessness: The Pathologization/Responsibilization Paradox

open access: yesStudies in Social Justice, 2016
Psychocentrism is a governing neoliberal rationality that pathologizes human problems and frames individuals as responsible for socially structured inequalities. The homeless community provides an important case study to examine the ways psychocentrism manifests among an excluded population.
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Neoliberalism, Pro-ana/mia Websites, and Pathologizing Women: Using Performance Ethnography to Challenge Psychocentrism

open access: yesStudies in Social Justice, 2016
Key terms such as “pro-ana,” “pro-anorexia,” and “pro-ED” are searched for on the Internet over 13 million times annually. These searches lead to web pages and social media sites where pro-anorexia and “pro-bulimia” (pro-ana/mia) contributors share weight-loss and exercise tips, “thinspiration” slogans, images and videos, and speak openly about their ...
Nicole D Schott   +2 more
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