Video and social rehabilitation of persons with mental illness helps to structure everyday life:a qualitative study

BACKGROUND: Living with a mental disorder has a significant impact on everyday life. In 2018, one out of every six adults, equivalent to 17.3% of the adult population of the European Union, had symptoms of mental disorders. This paper focus on social rehabilitation of patients with mental illness who have been discharged from hospital and who use video communication technologies in their rehabilitation in collaboration with their social worker. The aim of this study has been to explore the experiences of persons with mental illnesses who participated in a long-term video-based tele-social rehabilitation program, the Video Assist. METHODS: The overall research strategy is the case study method. Data collection techniques are based on triangulation. Document analysis has been performed. Participant observation in homes of persons with mental using video with social workers (168 hours). Semi structured qualitative interviews with persons with mental illness (n=13) has been conducted lasting between 30 and 60 minutes. Data were analyzed using NVivo 10.0. RESULTS: Experiences of persons with mental illness participating in the tele-social rehabilitation program are in themes: user friendly video technology, video created a new means of communication between citizen and social worker, feeling of surveillance by having the technology in the home, development of new coping strategies in everyday life and need for psychosocial support and training via the video technology. CONCLUSIONS: Persons with mental illness who are in a recovery process find that participating in a tele-social-rehabilitation program gives them a sense of mobility, security, surveillance but the ability to develop new coping strategies in their everyday lives. Future research is needed on long-term effects of tele-social rehabilitation for persons with mental illness

DEKONSTRUKTIONENS PLOT

Narratologien begynder med, at Aristoteles i sin Poetik giver to bestemmelser af narratologiens hovedbegreb mythos: på den ene side imiterer mythos en ekstra-litterær handling (praxis) og er heteronomt bestemt; på den anden side er mythos autonomt bestemt, et logisk, æstetisk og selvafsluttet hele. Litteraturen (mythos) er harmonisk – både sand (heteronom) og skøn (autonom). Men begrebet mythos rummer en potentiel konflikt, der i moderne tid (om ikke før) får sit navn i de russiske formalisters skelnen mellem fabel og sjuzet (plot). I fablen fremstilles begivenhederne i den tur og orden, som de rent faktisk foregår i. I plottet derimod fortælles fablens historie med henblik på den æstetiske værdi og i forhold til publikum. Denne skelnen mellem plot og fabel har Umberto Eco overtaget; han taler om 1) historier der rummer både plot og fabel (hvor fablen rekonstrueres pba plottet); 2) rene fabler uden plot (»Den Lille Rødhætte«); 3) plot uden fabel. Tredje kategori er en uting for Eco, leder nok til en åben læsning, men samtidig til en fortolkning, der aldrig vil konkludere. For Eco må læsningen altid gå fra plot til fabel – ellers stiller man sig uden for sandhed og afgørlighed og følger heri en gnostisk tradition for hermetisk pansemiotisme fr middelalderen; fortolkninger afføder nye fortolkninger i aldrig lukkede kæder af relative udsagn. Denne læsetradition er i moderne tid udfoldet i dekonstruktionen (eksemplificeret ved Peter Brooks). Brooks skelner ikke mellem plot og fabel – alt er plot, enhver fortælling er determineret af sin æstetiske reception. Dermed er alt også genfortolkeligt, en principiel åbenhed breder sig i alle reninger. Enhver fortælling, der søger sandheden, skjuler sin egen fortalte karakter (siger Derrida); enhver fabel forudsætter et bagvedliggende plot, siger Brooks i forlængelse heraf. Eco fastholder derimod distinktionen mellem plot og fabel, fordi sandheden er afhængig af en sådan skelnen.In his Poetics Aristotle identifies plot (mythos) as »the soul of tragedy«, its »first principle«. Plot, he says, is both an imitation of the action (praxis) and it is the proper arrangement of incidents: it should »imitate one action and that a whole, the structural units of the parts being such that, if any of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed.« According to a later distinction from Kant's Critique of Practical Reason, plot is both autonomous (related to itself) and heteronomous (related to the outside world). Aristotle, who seeks to vindicate poetryagainst Plato, does not consider the latent conflict of these two dimensions, but we may see them as protoconcepts for the modern distinction between story and plot as developed by the Russian formalists (as fabula and sjuzet, respectively. The story is a straightforward relation of the sequence of events in the narration; the plot is therearrangement of the narration relative to reader or public, i.e. in terms of aesthetic value. This distinction has been taken over by Umberto Eco (in Interpretation and Overinterpretation and elsewhere) where he distinguishes between 1) stories with plots; 2) stories without a plot (such as »Little Red Riding Hood«); 3) plot without a story. The third type is monstrous, thinks Eco; the act of reading must always move from plot to story, and if there is no story to control it, the plot will merely reproduce itself without critical distinctions. In particular, this openendedness is equal tonot considering the story's truth-value; everything becomes relative to something else, interpretations lead to further interpretations, etc. By contrast, Peter Brooks (in Reading for the Plot) argues that there is no story which is not also invariably a plot; in the final analysis the distinction that every story which situates itself relative to truth suppresses its own aesthetic arrangement; there is always a plot behind the story. Eco, on the other hand, insists on the distinction since the interminable chain of interpretative manoeuvres is intolerable, in fact a continuation of medieval gnosticism- and he looks upon deconstruction as a modern hermetic development of this kind of pansemiotic pragmatism

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