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Dialogue as a Response to the Psychiatrization of Society? Potentials of the Open Dialogue Approach [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology, 2021
In recent decades, the use of psychosocial and psychiatric care systems has increased worldwide. A recent article proposed the concept of psychiatrization as an explanatory framework, describing multiple processes responsible for the spread of ...
Sebastian von Peter   +8 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 ...
Jan Nadine DeFehr
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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.
Erin Dej
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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 ...
Nicole D Schott   +2 more
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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 in psycholinguistic experimentation.
Gary eLibben   +3 more
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Toward Epistemic Justice: A Critically Reflexive Examination of ‘Sanism’ and Implications for Knowledge Generation

open access: yesStudies in Social Justice, 2016
The dominance of medicalized “psy” discourses in the West has marginalized alternative perspectives and analyses of madness, resulting in the under-inclusion (or exclusion) from mainstream discourse of the firsthand experiences and perspectives of those ...
Stephanie LeBlanc   +1 more
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The internal structure of destination visitantion model and implications for image management

open access: yesPASOS Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural, 2013
In the present research, Stanley Plog´s (1967) Psychocentrism - Allocentrism Visitation Model is reimagined. The researcher descomposes Plog´s original model and indentifies five smaller bell shaped curves constituting five tourist within the normal ...
Babu P. George   +2 more
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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 ...
openaire   +1 more source

Pathologizing Indigenous Suicide: Examining the Inquest into the Deaths of C.J. and C.B. at the Manitoba Youth Centre

open access: yesStudies in Social Justice, 2016
This paper examines the inquest into the deaths by suicide of two Manitoba Indigenous female youth while imprisoned in the Manitoba Youth Centre in Winnipeg, Canada.
Mandi Gray
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