Psychological phenomena are semiotic, so the best model for understanding them must be 'conversation'. Psychiatric conversations are dominated by complaints. In dealing with them the structure of the ...
For many new graduates the transition from nursing student to a professional in practice is marked by conflict and tension. Given that conflict may ensue from differing discursive constructions of new...
The history of diabetes and the progress of the sciences demonstrates that original creative investigation requires in addition to logic thinking intuition which originates from the unconscious. The c...
The principal argument of the present paper is that the human body is as much a reflective formation of multiple discourses as it is an effect of natural and environmental processes. This paper examin...
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The expression 'public participation' in democratic decision-making processes may assume different meanings ranging from "the right to be informed" up to "the right to directly decide". An i...
Narratives from adolescents in treatment for cancer were examined for the variety of ways in which self is constructed in discourse. Narratives were elicited by the second author (Bearison) from 75 ch...
This paper is a theoretical exploration of the discursive context that shapes the nurse-patient relationship. It represents a feminist poststructural consideration of the broader institutional and soc...