30 research outputs found
Characteristics linked to the reduction of stigma towards schizophrenia: a pre-and-post study of parents of adolescents attending an educational program
The effect of medical and psychotherapeutic treatment models for schizophrenia on stigma and recovery expectations
Something begotten in the state of Denmark? Immigrants, territorialized culture, and the Danes as an indigenous people
Untold stories of living with a bariatric body: Long-term experiences of weight-loss surgery
This article explores patients' longâterm experiences after undergoing bariatric surgery (BS) by individual interviews and the interplay between biographical disruption and biographical flow when the body's normal physiology and anatomy are intentionally altered. Based on interpretative phenomenological analysis the findings show that the bariatric body is still prominent in daily life, positively by displacing the overweight body and negatively due to the development of unexpected health problems after surgery. Due to individual informed consent to the treatment, the negative consequences are perceived as selfâinflicted. The feelings of responsibility and shame make it difficult to seek help and to be open about undesirable longâterm effects and other health problems after surgery. The study argues that undergoing BS is a disruptive event with uncertain longâterm outcomes and living with a bariatric body as a vulnerable life continuously at the intersection of biographical disruption, flow and reinforcement. This study reinforces the importance of doing critical sociological studies of standardised medical interventions which aim to improve patients health problems. Included in these types of studies should be the patients' longâterm experiences and the awareness not to uncritically present their experiences as universal and the treatment result solely as the patients' own responsibility
Untold stories of living with a bariatric body: longâterm experiences of weightâloss surgery
Effects of the barley mutants Riso 1508 and 527 high lysine genes on the cellular development of the endosperm
Schizophrenia or possession? A reply to Kemal Irmak and Nuray Karanci
A recent paper in this journal argues that some cases of schizophrenia should be seen as cases of demon possession and treated by faith healers. A reply, also published in this journal, responds by raising concerns about the intellectual credibility and potentially harmful practical implications of demon possession beliefs. My paper contributes to the discussion, arguing that a critique of demon possession beliefs in the context of schizophrenia is needed, but suggesting an alternative basis for it. It also reflects on important differences between demonic and other forms of spirit possession and considers the implications of this for mental healthcare providers