The Palgrave Handbook of Adult Mental Health

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xlvi

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2. Introduction: The Social Construction of Normality and Pathology

   1. Introduction: The Social Construction of Normality and Pathology

      • Michelle O’Reilly, Jessica Nina Lester

      Pages 1-19

3. Reconceptualising Mental Health and Illness

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. The History and Landscape of Conversation and Discourse Analysis

      • Jessica Nina Lester, Michelle O’Reilly

      Pages 23-44

   3. Using Discourse and Conversation Analysis to Study Clinical Practice in Adult Mental Health

      • Nikki Kiyimba

      Pages 45-63

   4. The Research Interview in Adult Mental Health: Problems and Possibilities for Discourse Studies

      • Julie Hepworth, Chris McVittie

      Pages 64-81

   5. Inclusive Conversation Analysis with Disabled People

      • Val Williams, Marcus Jepson, Lisa Ponting, Kerrie Ford

      Pages 82-100

   6. The Discursive Construction of Drug Realities: Discourses on Drugs, Users, and Drug-Related Practices

      • Benno Herzog

      Pages 101-116

   7. The Construction of Adult ADHD: Anna’s Story

      • Alison Davies, Mary Horton-Salway

      Pages 117-133

   8. Using Discourse Analysis to Investigate How Bipolar Disorder Is Constructed as an Object

      • Lynere Wilson, Marie Crowe

      Pages 134-150

   9. Discourses of Autism on Film: An Analysis of Memorable Images that Create Definition

      • Andrea Garner, Valerie Harwood, Sandra C. Jones

      Pages 151-166

   10. Abuse Victims and High-Profile Offenders: A Discourse Analysis of Victim Construction and Adult Mental Health

       • Naima Fowlis, Michelle O’Reilly, Mary Farrelly

       Pages 167-188

4. Naming, Labelling, and Diagnosing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189

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   2. Diagnosing as an Interactional Achievement in Psychiatric Interviews

      • Carles Roca-Cuberes

      Pages 191-208

   3. Psychogenic Non-epileptic Seizures: How Doctors Use Medical Labels when They Communicate and Explain the Diagnosis

      • Chiara M. Monzoni, Markus Reuber

      Pages 209-226

   4. The Process of Social Labelling of Mental Illness: An Analysis of Family Conversations

      • Milena Silva Lisboa, Mary Jane Paris Spink

      Pages 227-246

   5. Making Mental Disorders Visible: Proto-Morality as Diagnostic Resource in Psychiatric Exploration

      • Jörg R. Bergmann

      Pages 247-268

   6. The Role of Self-Disclosure in the Social Construction of Understandings of Alcoholism and Mental Health within Talk between Members of Alcoholics Anonymous

      • Matthew S. Thatcher

      Pages 269-286

   7. ‘But How Often Does This Happen?’: Problem Reducing Responses by Coaches in Email Counselling

      • Joyce Lamerichs, Wyke Stommel

      Pages 287-307

   8. Does ana=Anorexia? Online Interaction and the Construction of New Discursive Objects

      • David C. Giles

      Pages 308-326

This Handbook gathers together empirical and theoretical chapters from leading scholars and clinicians to examine the broad issue of adult mental health. The contributors draw upon data from a variety of contexts to illustrate the multiple ways in which language as action can assist us in better understanding the discursive practices that surround adult mental health. Conversation and discourse analysis are useful, related approaches for the study of mental health conditions, particularly when underpinned by a social constructionist framework. In the field of mental health, the use of these two approaches is growing, with emergent implications for adults with mental health conditions, their practitioners, and/or their families.

Divided into four parts; Reconceptualising Mental Health and Illness; Naming, Labelling and Diagnosing; The Discursive Practice of Psychiatry; and Therapy and Interventions; this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of current debates regarding adult mental health.

• mental health
• discourse
• language
• linguistics
• discourse analysis
• conversation analysis
• social constructionism
• critical approaches
• alcohol
• attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
• autism
• autism spectrum disorder
• counseling
• diagnosis
• Exploration
• interaction
• intervention
• interview
• online
• psychiatry
• psychotherapy
• suicide
• Therapeut

“The 700 plus page handbook is a well-organised, easy to navigate and relevant guide. … This is an excellent addition to the handbook, acting as an abstract for the chapter as well as addressing the clear implications of the research. … As someone with a qualitative background but with a limited understanding of conversation analysis, this handbook was a good exposure to the variety of uses of discourse and conversation analysis in the field of mental health.” (Lucas Shelemy, The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol 18 (2), June, 2018)

• University of Leicester, UK

  Michelle O’Reilly

• Indiana University, USA

  Jessica Nina Lester

Michelle O'Reilly is Senior Lecturer at the University of Leicester, Greenwood Institute of Child Health, UK. She specialises in discourse and conversation analysis of child mental health interactions. Michelle has a particular interest in childhood autism and has published books and papers in both mental health and autism.

Jessica Nina Lester is Assistant Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. She teaches research methods courses, including discourse analysis. Her research is focused on the study and development of qualitative methodologies, with much of her work positioned at the intersection of discourse studies and disability studies.

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