Countervailing medicalization: A relational approach to the medicalization of psychosis

This paper provides a relational analysis of the medicalization of prodromal psychosis, a period of low-level symptoms that might or might not escalate into an official psychotic disorder (e.g., schizophrenia). Data consists of 30 in-depth interviews with the complete staff of two prodromal psychosi...

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Main Author: Michael Halpin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-12-01
Series:SSM: Qualitative Research in Health
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667321522000804