"This is for Life": A Discursive Analysis of the Dilemmas of Constructing Diagnostic Identities

This paper takes a discourse analytic approach to the construction of identities formed through reception of a psychiatric diagnosis (I will refer to these as "diagnostic identities" throughout) as dilemmatic, and the subsequent negotiations of identities in light of that dilemma. More spe...

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Main Author: Ian Tucker
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: FQS 2009-07-01
Series:Forum: Qualitative Social Research
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Online Access:http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1376