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Article Dans Une Revue Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry Année : 2008

The patient's view : issues of theory and practice

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Almost all the knowledge now produced about psychiatry includes what is called "the patient's or client's perspective." This paper analyzes how this notion has been framed in the discourses on mental health over the last two decades, particularly in mental health research and in anthropology. The very concept of the "patient's perspective" is a social and historical construct. Anthropologists integrate the contextual nature of the patient view; but they still largely envision the psychiatric patient as a rational actor producing narratives based on common sense. However, in psychiatric practice, the client's perspective is not something the patient individually produces; it is rather shaped by and in a context. To explore this process, my research investigated interactions between staff and patients in a French community mental health center, and showed that the client's perspective is the result of a collective process.

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halshs-00611194 , version 1 (25-07-2011)

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Livia Velpry. The patient's view : issues of theory and practice. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 2008, 32 (2), pp.238-258. ⟨10.1007/s11013-008-9086-2⟩. ⟨halshs-00611194⟩

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