Metaphors of mental illness: a corpus-based approach analysing first-person accounts of patients and mental health professionals

What is mental illness? Social representations of mental illness among British and French mental health professionals

: Mental health professionals are important actors in implementing public mental health policies and in shaping lay representations of mental illness. The research reported in this paper focuses on the social representations of mental illness held by these professionals in Britain and France. In interviews conducted with sixty mental health workers from a range of professional backgrounds the d...

Social Distance and Mental Illness: Attitudes Among Mental Health and Non-Mental Health Professionals and Trainees

Stigma has been defined as a product of disgrace that sets a person apart from others (Byrne, 2000). Stigma towards adults with mental illness, defined here as a serious medical condition such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression that disrupts a person’s thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others, and daily functioning (National Alliance on Mental Illness [NAMI], 20...

a corpus-based study of the frequency of personal pronouns in translated and comparable non-translated persian texts

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Mental Health or Mental Illness

re^ reader daring enough to venture beyond the glaring cover will find his a?^s in this concise treatise on Mental Health and Illness. Jhe author feels strongly that: the problem of mental illness and abnormal functioning cannot be solved unless more people, having learned about the problem, will take an active Part instead of leaving the whole situation in the hands of psychiatrists". Later he...

Mental Health—Or Mental Illness?