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dc.contributor.authorBaldwin, P. Clive*
dc.date.accessioned2009-08-11T07:25:10Z
dc.date.available2009-08-11T07:25:10Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.identifier.citationBaldwin, P.C. (2005). Narrative, ethics and severe mental illness. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. Vol. 39, No. 11/12, pp. 1022-1029.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10454/3268
dc.descriptionNoen
dc.description.abstractStarting from the premise that people are essentially narrative beings, I argue that the onset of severe mental illness compromises the narrative enterprise of being able to construct one's Self and one's relationships inmeaningful and coherent ways. This is due to both the curtailment of opportunities for narrative engagement and the dispossession of those whose narratives do not conform to the current conceptualization of narrative and narrativity. In these circumstances, supporting the narrative enterprise is an ethical endeavour that requires that we examine not only which narratives we construct, but also how we construct them. This requires a re-thinking of what might constitute narrative and how we might facilitate or enhance the narrativity of people with severe mental illness. Following this, I suggest four means to support the narrativity of people with severe mental illness: through maintaining narrative continuity, maintaining narrative agency, countering master narratives and attention to small stories.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.subjectDegenerative diseaseen
dc.subjectCerebral disorderen
dc.subjectCentral nervous system diseaseen
dc.subjectNervous system diseasesen
dc.subjectHumanen
dc.subjectTherapeutic relationen
dc.subjectTreatmenten
dc.subjectClinical managementen
dc.subjectMental disorderen
dc.subjectSenile dementiaen
dc.titleNarrative, ethics and severe mental illness.en
dc.status.refereedYesen
dc.typeArticleen
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1614.2005.01721.x


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