Social constructionist contributions to critiques of psychiatric diagnosis and classification

Barrett RJ (1996) The Psychiatric Team and the Social Definition of Schizophrenia: An Anthropological Study of Person and Illness, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Benson A Secker J Balfe E (2003) Discourses of blame: Accounting for aggression and violence on an acute mental health inpatient ward. Social Science and Medicine 57: 917–926.

Crepeau EB (2000) Reconstructing Gloria: A narrative analysis of team meetings. Qualitative Health Research 10(6): 766–787.

Georgaca E (2000) Reality and discourse: A critical analysis of the category of ‘delusions’. British Journal of Medical Psychology 73: 227–242.

Georgaca E (2004) Factualisation and plausibility in ‘delusional’ discourse. Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology 11(1): 13–23.

Griffiths L (1998) Humour as resistance to professional dominance in community mental health teams. Sociology of Health and Illness 20(6): 874–895.

Griffiths L (2001) Categorising to exclude: The discursive construction of cases in community mental health teams. Sociology of Health and Illness 23(5): 678–700.

Hak T (1989) Constructing a psychiatric case. In: Torode B (ed.) Text and Talk as Social Practice: Discourse Difference and Division in Speech and Writing, Dordrecht, Holland: Foris Publications, pp. 72–92.

Hak T (1992) Psychiatric records as transformations of other texts. In: Watson G Seiler RM (eds) Text in Context: Contributions to Ethnomethodology, London: Sage, pp. 138–155.

Harper DJ (1994) The professional construction of ‘paranoia’ and the discursive use of diagnostic criteria. British Journal of Medical Psychology 67: 131–143.

Harper DJ (1995) Discourse analysis and ‘mental health’. Journal of Mental Health 4: 347–357.

Harper DJ (1999) Tablet talk and depot discourse: Discourse analysis and psychiatric medication. In: Willig C (ed.) Applied Discourse Analysis: Social and Psychological Interventions, Buckingham: Open University Press, pp. 125–144.

Johnstone L Frith H (2005) Discourse analysis and the experience of ECT. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice 78: 189–203.

Lafrance MN (2007) A bitter pill: A discursive analysis of women’s medicalized accounts of depression. Journal of Health Psychology 12(1): 127–140.

Lewis SE (1995) A search for meaning: Making sense of depression. Journal of Mental Health 4: 369–382.

Liebert R Gavey N (2009) “There are always two sides to these things”: Managing the dilemma of serious adverse effects from SSRIs. Social Science and Medicine 68: 1882–1891.

McCabe R Heath C Burns C (2002) Engagement of patients with psychosis in the consultation: Conversation analytic study. British Medical Journal 325: 1148–1151.

Soyland AJ (1994) Functions of the psychiatric case-summary. Text 14(1): 113–140.

Stevens P Harper DJ (2007) Professional accounts of electroconvulsive therapy: A discourse analysis. Social Science and Medicine 64: 1475–1486.

Swann CJ Ussher JM (1995) A discourse analytic approach to women’s experience of premenstrual syndrome. Journal of Mental Health 4: 359–367.

Swartz S (1996) Shrinking: A postmodern perspective on psychiatric case histories. South African Journal of Psychology 26(3): 150–157.

Terkelsen TB (2009) Transforming subjectivities in psychiatric care. Subjectivity 27: 195–216.

Thomas-McLean R Stoppard J (2004) Physicians’ constructions of depression: Inside/outside the boundaries of medicalization. Health 8: 275–293.