People never see us living well: an appraisal of the personal stories about mental illness in a prospective print media sample

摘要: Objective: Having found no discussions of self-depictions offered by psychiatric patients in the mass media we sought such items a prospective national sample print and analysed how those speakers portrayed themselves.Method: As part larger study depictions mental illnesses all with any health or illness aspect that appeared New Zealand publication over four-week period were collected. The resulting collection 600 ranged from news briefs to full-page newspaper articles. From set selected which person identified as having been patient disorder was either quoted reporter who had interviewed them, personally described their experiences. Employing both propositional analyses discourse analysis explored positioned patterns themes construction living illness.Results: Only five articles (0.8%...