'These psychiatrists rate themselves as gods': Disengagement and engagement discourses of people living with severe mental illness
Jay Watts; City University, London, UK
Stefan Priebe; Newham Centre for Mental Health, London, UK
Mike Chase; University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK
Alan Costall; University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK
Jörg Zinken; University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK
R690-697; Medicine as a profession.
mental illness; disengagement; mental health services; discourse analysis; positioning analysis; identity
Primary care; communication in medicine
Positioning analysis, a variant of discourse analysis, was used to explore the narratives of 40 psychiatric patients (11 females and 29 males; mean age = 40 years) who had manifest difficulties with engagement with statutory mental health services. Positioning analysis is a qualitative method that captures how people linguistically position the roles and identities of themselves and others in their day-to-day lives and narratives. The language of disengagement incorporated the passive positioning of self in relation to their lives and treatment through the use of metaphor, the passive voice and them and us attribution, while the discourse of engagement incorporated more active positioning of self, achieved through the use of the personal pronoun we and metaphoric references to balanced relationships. The findings corroborate previous thematic analysis that highlighted the importance of identity and agency in the 'making or breaking' of therapeutic relationships (Priebe et al. 2005). Implications are discussed in relation to how positioning analysis may help signal and emphasize important life and therapeutic experiences in spoken narratives as well as clinical consultations.
A catalogue of the Portsmouth collection of books and papers written by or belonging to Sir Isaac Newton : the scientific portion of which has been presented by the Earl of Portsmouth to the University of Cambridge / drawn up by the syndicate appointed the 6th November, 1872.
University of California Libraries (archive.org); Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727; Luard, Henry Richards, 1825-1891
University of California Libraries (archive.org); Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727; Luard, Henry Richards, 1825-1891 (Cambridge :University Press,1888., 1888)
Journalism special investigation: Portsmouth isn't eating: an investigation into the causes, effects and solutions of food
 poverty in Portsmouth
Hunter, Stephanie (2015)
The subject of this special investigation is the impact of food poverty in Portsmouth. There have been many reports in recent years that have focussed on food poverty at a national level and it continues to be a much discussed political and social topic. There have been many campaigns such as 'Britain isn't Eating' to highlight the problem. The target publication for the features is The News. In order to create a diverse image of food poverty, each of the four features discusses the effects of food poverty in Portsmouth from a different angle. They also discuss the causes and possible solutions of food poverty. The features contain interviews with food project volunteers, charity organisers, people who have struggled with food poverty, politicians and professionals employed by the local authority.
 The accompanying essay section discusses the representation of the working class in The Daily Mail. Three moral panic theories are used to examine whether The Daily Mail is complicit in maintaining moral panics. The three case studies chosen date from 2008 to 2014 and they convey a concerning level of stereotyping and exaggeration within the newspaper's reporting of the working class. Ultimately, each case study portrays the working class negatively and the reporting style of each article can be linked to more than one moral panic model.