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Consumption and everyday life | Cultural studies
Publisher: Royal College of Psychiatrists
Date: 12-2003
Abstract: Little is known about the mental health of gay men and lesbians living in Europe. To compare psychological status, quality of life and use of mental health services by lesbians and gay men with heterosexual people. Cross-sectional study in England and Wales using ‘snowball’ s ling. Participants: 656 gay men, 505 heterosexual men, 430 lesbians and 588 heterosexual women. Gay men were more likely than heterosexual men to score above threshold on the Clinical Interview Schedule, indicating greater levels of psychological distress (RR 1.24, 95% Cl 1.07–1.43), as were lesbians compared with heterosexual women (RR 1.30, 95% Cl 1.11-1.52). Gay men and lesbians were more likely than heterosexuals to have consulted a mental health professional in the past, deliberately harmed themselves and used recreational drugs. Lesbians were more likely to have experienced verbal and physical intimidation and to consume more alcohol than heterosexual women. Awareness of mental health issues for gay men and lesbians should become a standard part of training for mental health professionals, who need to be aware of the potential for substance misuse and self-harm in this group and of the discrimination experienced by many lesbians.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-04-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-05-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-12-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2005
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2011
Abstract: In this paper, we explore some of the tensions involved in the process of engaging with embodiment research. Although a significant volume of discursive work on “the body” and its role in social relations now exists, there is little in the way of empirical research that moves the focus away from discourse alone to concentrate on other modalities, such as embodied feelings, sensations, and engagements with the world. We begin by briefly reviewing the turn to embodiment across the social sciences and the manner in which this has been taken up in psychology. We then outline our attempts as a research collective to develop methodologies and research activities that can produce meaningful data on embodied experience. The outcomes of one of these tasks are then described in detail, along with reflections on the difficulties and limitations that emerged. Finally, we attempt to conceptualize the challenge of researching embodiment by returning to the late 19th century psychology of John Dewey, which, we argue, neatly summarizes some of the problems to be addressed by any researchers engaged in the “turn to the body.”
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-09-2023
DOI: 10.1002/AJS4.233
Abstract: A policy norm enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2006 reflected in Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme is for people with psychosocial and other disabilities to have choice and control over their lives and not to live in institutional settings. In Australia, private congregate care settings remain in most states and territories, yet are not recognised as institutional settings in policy or academic literature. This recognition is long overdue and is the focus of this article. The article reports on findings from an ethnographic study in a type of private congregate care setting in Victoria—supported residential services (SRS). Adopting criteria adopted by Davies (1989) from Goffman's notion of “total institution,” observations and interviews with 12 residents with psychosocial disability are analysed. These settings are found to meet many of the criteria for total institution. This finding has two critical implications for policy and practice. First, the extent to which institutionalisation in SRS impacts on the choices residents are able to make. Second, the extent to which independent support and advocacy are needed to ensure residents can exercise choice and control over their lives to find pathways out of SRS.
Publisher: Royal College of Psychiatrists
Date: 12-2004
Abstract: There is a dearth of research into the mental health of gay men, lesbians and bisexual men and women in the UK. To assess rates and possible predictors of mental illness in these groups. A comprehensive assessment was made of the psychological and social well-being of a s le of gay men, lesbians and bisexual men and women, identified using ‘snowball’ s ling. Of the 1285 gay, lesbian and bisexual respondents who took part, 556 (43%) had mental disorder as defined by the revised Clinical Interview Schedule (CIS – R). Out of the whole s le, 361 (31%) had attempted suicide. This was associated with markers of discrimination such as recent physical attack (OR=l.7, 95% CI 1.3–2.3) and school bullying (OR=l.4, 95% CI 1.1–2.0), but not with higher scores on the CIS-R. Gay, lesbian and bisexual men and women have high levels of mental disorder, possibly linked with discrimination.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2007
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 27-04-2012
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 14-05-2018
Abstract: Lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or trans (LGBT) people have higher risk of certain life-limiting illnesses and unmet needs in advanced illness and bereavement. ACCESSCare is the first national study to examine in depth the experiences of LGBT people facing advanced illness. To explore health-care experiences of LGBT people facing advanced illness to elicit views regarding sharing identity (sexual orientation/gender history), accessing services, discrimination/exclusion and best-practice ex les. Semi-structured in-depth qualitative interviews analysed using thematic analysis. In total, 40 LGBT people from across the United Kingdom facing advanced illness: cancer ( n = 21), non-cancer ( n = 16) and both a cancer and a non-cancer conditions ( n = 3). In total, five main themes emerged: (1) person-centred care needs that may require additional/different consideration for LGBT people (including different social support structures and additional legal concerns), (2) service level or interactional (created in the consultation) barriers/stressors (including heteronormative assumptions and homophobic/transphobic behaviours), (3) invisible barriers/stressors (including the historical context of pathology/criminalisation, fears and experiences of discrimination) and (4) service level or interactional facilitators (including acknowledging and including partners in critical discussions). These all shape (5) in iduals’ preferences for disclosing identity. Prior experiences of discrimination or violence, in response to disclosure, were carried into future care interactions and heightened with the frailty of advanced illness. Despite recent legislative change, experiences of discrimination and exclusion in health care persist for LGBT people. Ten recommendations, for health-care professionals and services/institutions, are made from the data. These are simple, low cost and offer potential gains in access to, and outcomes of, care for LGBT people.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-04-2015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2004
DOI: 10.1348/014466604322916006
Abstract: The research presented in this paper uses memory work as a method to explore six women's collective constructions of two embodied practices, sweating and pain. The paper identifies limitations in the ways in which social constructionist research has theorized the relationship between discourse and materiality, and it proposes an approach to the study of embodiment which enjoins, rather than bridges, the discursive and the non-discursive. The paper presents an analysis of 25 memories of sweating and pain which suggests that Cartesian dualism is central to the women's accounts of their experiences. However, such dualism does not operate as a stable organizing principle. Rather, it offers two strategies for the performance of a split between mind and body. The paper traces the ways in which dualism can be both functional and restrictive, and explores the tensions between these two forms. The paper concludes by identifiying opportunities and limitations associated with memory work as a method for studying embodiment.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-11-2013
DOI: 10.1002/CASP.2134
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2008
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-01-2022
DOI: 10.1002/JCOP.22511
Abstract: Trans women face multiple social, economic and health inequalities and the impact of gender oppression and violence is even more profoundly experienced by trans women sex workers, although in culturally specific ways. This paper presents a pilot study conducted to explore and engage with the context of trans women sex workers in Lido Tre Archi, Italy. In line with the community psychology values of social justice, social change and participation, we outline our engagement process and key challenges observed when attempting action research with such a highly marginalised group. Data were collected in the form of ethnographic notes from informal consultations with different stakeholders and participant observations, and of documents (newspaper articles, picture captions) and were analysed using thematic analysis. Findings are organised in three themes relating to the social, policy and physical context in Lido Tre Archi demonstrating evidence of the contextual challenges and how they intertwine to generate a spiral of marginalisation and social exclusion for the participants. We take a collaborative and reflexive stance in our work and conclude with recommended steps and potential limitations to initiate an action research project.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2007
Abstract: This article explores how transsexual men and women talk about shifts in self-perceptions and embodiment. Often there are remarkable changes in transsexual people's fleshy physicality that affect not only how their gendered bodies are perceived but also how they experience themselves as embodied subjects. Yet despite the advances of medical science and a growing investment in new bodily technologies, the author argues that the transsexual body cannot be seen as entirely malleable, because it is often marked by previous physical features and cultural bodily practices that are difficult to shake off. This is particularly the case for male-to-female transsexuals, because the markers of masculinity appear harder to escape. Thus, in a move toward a theory of embodied subjectivity, the author argues that transitions in a sense of gendered subjectivity are intrinsically tied to and inseparable from shifts in gendered embodiment.
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Start Date: 2018
End Date: 2019
Funder: NIHR Central Commissioning Facility
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2017
End Date: 2020
Funder: National Institute for Health Research
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2023
End Date: 12-2025
Amount: $238,907.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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