Att skapa sin identitet : En narrativ studie av biografier om psykisk ohälsa
(2016) SOPA63 20152School of Social Work
- Abstract
- The purpose of this study is to examine how young women construct their identity in biographies in relation to their own mental health state, their self harm behavior and the psychiatric institution. Self-harm behavior is a growing problem, primarily for young women. I’ve used a narrative text-analysis to investigate how women construct their identity and to examine the differences between the authors. I chose to write about mental health problems due to personal and due to its recurrence to the education. The result of my analysis is that the women construct their identity foremost as a result of how the institution sees the individual and of how they look at their self harm behavior. The women also construct their identity based on... (More)
- The purpose of this study is to examine how young women construct their identity in biographies in relation to their own mental health state, their self harm behavior and the psychiatric institution. Self-harm behavior is a growing problem, primarily for young women. I’ve used a narrative text-analysis to investigate how women construct their identity and to examine the differences between the authors. I chose to write about mental health problems due to personal and due to its recurrence to the education. The result of my analysis is that the women construct their identity foremost as a result of how the institution sees the individual and of how they look at their self harm behavior. The women also construct their identity based on interaction on internet the combined group stigmatization. (Less)
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- author
- Johansson, Josefin LU
- supervisor
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- Frans Oddner LU
- organization
- course
- SOPA63 20152
- year
- 2016
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Selfharm, Self injury, biographies, mental health, Goffman, institution, identity, stigmatization
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 8852475
- date added to LUP
- 2016-03-29 15:28:25
- date last changed
- 2016-03-29 15:28:25
@misc{8852475, abstract = {{The purpose of this study is to examine how young women construct their identity in biographies in relation to their own mental health state, their self harm behavior and the psychiatric institution. Self-harm behavior is a growing problem, primarily for young women. I’ve used a narrative text-analysis to investigate how women construct their identity and to examine the differences between the authors. I chose to write about mental health problems due to personal and due to its recurrence to the education. The result of my analysis is that the women construct their identity foremost as a result of how the institution sees the individual and of how they look at their self harm behavior. The women also construct their identity based on interaction on internet the combined group stigmatization.}}, author = {{Johansson, Josefin}}, language = {{swe}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{Att skapa sin identitet : En narrativ studie av biografier om psykisk ohälsa}}, year = {{2016}}, }