Public tolerance of, and non-discrimination towards, people with mental health problems are key factors on which success in achieving the goal of community-based mental health care depends. This paper revisits Thomas Scheff’ s (1966) sociological theory of mental illness, and tests elements of this thorough critical review of recent UK literature relating to public attitudes towards, and media ...

abstract rowya-e-tabbat novel was written by fariba vaghi, it is based on the life of three women on the various invests who try to attain calm, but they choose the different ways. it is necessary to know the relation and social identity in every society, to study the literary works .the novel is a novice literary form due to retention theory that is copy of social life. hence, it is necessary ...

introduction people suffering from psychiatric illness experience stigma as an unpleasant social construct. stigma has many damaging effects on the individuals, work, home-managing and social communications in these people. the main objective of this grounded theory study was to develop the perspectives of sufferers, their families, and healthcare team members about stigma in people with psychi...

This paper considers various philosophical problems arising from Kant's account of mental disorder. Starting with the reasons why Kant considered his theory of mental disorder important, I then turn to the implications of this theory of Kant's metaphysics, epistemology and ethics. Given Kant's account of insanity as 'a totally different standpoint... from which one sees all objects differently'...

This study examines how collaboration mode – face-to-face and videoconferencing technology-mediated virtual teams shapes negotiated shared interpretation of ideas needed for shared mental model construction. Social impact theory and group action theory provide a framework for explaining how technologymediated collaboration constrains or enhances team shared mental model development. Social impa...

Nunberg (1995) has identified two types of metonymic constructions with different linguistic properties: predicate transfer and deferred indexical reference. In this paper, we describe these types of metonymies within the context of cognitive grammar (Langacker, 1999), mental space theory (Fauconnier, 1994), and blending theory (Fauconnier & Turner, 2002). Using concepts from cognitive grammar,...