Click the star to add/remove an item to/from your individual schedule.
You need to be logged in to avail of this functionality.
Log in
Accepted Paper:
From medicalization to psychologization: coping with voice hearing in self-help groups in Denmark
Sidsel Busch
(University of Copenhagen)
Paper short abstract:
From medicalization to psychologization: coping with voice hearing in self-help groups in Denmark
Paper long abstract:
The hearing voices experience primarily appears as a diagnostic measure of serious mental illness in need of medical treatment. With this paper I would like to offer an example of how popular ideas about psychology and, in particular, a cultural idea about trauma, have been adopted by a user movement who is radically trying to change the status of voice hearing.
The matter in question is the international Hearing Voices Network. This network sets up self-help groups to provide a space within which people can focus on their voices, discuss and give meaning to what they are saying and find ways to influence and improve their experience of voice hearing.
In this paper I would like to explore social and cultural aspects of voice-hearers strive to cope, and show the significance and function of the psychological framework in this process.
Ambiguous states of mind and crises in their management: imaginative approaches to the self and emotions in four postindustrial societies
Session 1