Pub Date : 2020-11-09DOI: 10.1057/s41285-020-00151-z
Kristian Larsen, A. Hindhede, Mikkel Haderup Larsen, Mathias Holst Nicolaisen, Frederik Møller Henriksen
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Pub Date : 2020-10-12DOI: 10.1057/s41285-020-00150-0
M. Balaj
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01Epub Date: 2020-05-08DOI: 10.1057/s41285-020-00139-9
Amy Chandler, Caroline King, Chris Burton, Steve Platt
Research engaging qualitatively with clinical practitioners' understanding of, and response to, self-harm has been limited. Self-harm offers a particularly compelling case through which to examine the enduring challenges faced by practitioners in treating patients whose presenting symptoms are not clearly biomedical in nature. In this paper, we present an analysis of 30 General Practitioners' (GPs') accounts of treating patients who had self-harmed. Our analysis demonstrates the complex ways in which GPs seek to make sense of self-harm. Illustrated through three common 'types' of patients (the 'good girl', the 'problem patient' and the 'out of the blue'), we show how GPs grapple with ideas of 'social' and 'psychological' causes of self-harm. We argue that these tensions emerge in different ways according to the social identities of patients, with accounts shaped by local contexts, including access to specialist services, as well as by cultural understandings regarding the legitimacy of self-harming behaviour. We suggest that studying the social life of self-harm in general practice extends a sociological analysis of self-harm more widely, as well as contributing to sociological theorisation on the doctor-patient relationship.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01Epub Date: 2020-06-17DOI: 10.1057/s41285-020-00144-y
Peter Steggals, Steph Lawler, Ruth Graham
There is a growing recognition that nonsuicidal self-injury commonly incorporates communicative and interactional dimensions. But regardless of whether we approach self-injury within the terms of deliberate interpersonal communication, it is undeniably something that conveys a significant impact into the social and communicative field between people. As such, it is something that can be approached and analysed as communicative in this more general sense. In this paper, we draw on 13 in-depth qualitative interviews with the parents of people who self-injure, conducted for a larger pilot study, to explore some of these more general communicative processes, spaces and impacts associated with self-injury. By providing a phenomenologically informed examination of parents' experiences, we argue that self-injury is in fact a richly communicative phenomenon, albeit one that cannot be adequately mapped using the traditional sender-receiver communication paradigm. To provide a more nuanced mapping, we look beyond this paradigm to include more subtle, ambiguous, pre-reflexive and bodily forms of communication. Indeed, self-injury offers a particularly powerful case study with which to think through a more complex model of communication, one that connects the interpersonal, intersubjective and intercorporeal levels, and that, as such, is more appropriate to the sociologies of everyday life and embodiment.
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Pub Date : 2020-08-06DOI: 10.1057/s41285-020-00148-8
Joe Greener, Rich Moth
{"title":"From shame to blame: institutionalising oppression through the moralisation of mental distress in austerity England","authors":"Joe Greener, Rich Moth","doi":"10.1057/s41285-020-00148-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-020-00148-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46551,"journal":{"name":"Social Theory & Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1057/s41285-020-00148-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45973019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-08-06DOI: 10.1057/s41285-020-00149-7
Peter Steggals, R. Graham, S. Lawler
{"title":"Self-injury in social context: an emerging sociology","authors":"Peter Steggals, R. Graham, S. Lawler","doi":"10.1057/s41285-020-00149-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-020-00149-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46551,"journal":{"name":"Social Theory & Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1057/s41285-020-00149-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47658383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}