Du är sjuk - men inte på riktigt. En studie om webbsidors konstruktion av emotionellt instabil personlighetsstörning
(2018) SOPA63 20181School of Social Work
- Abstract
- The objective of this study was to through means of discourse analyse examine how
borderline personality disorder (BPD) and those diagnosed with it were constructed on
nine websites offering information about the diagnosis. Findings suggested that the
concept of BPD was difficult to grasp, both for those who receive the diagnosis and for
those around them. Further emerged a picture of the adult diagnosed with BPD
consistently reduced to being understood more like a child. BPD was found to be a
vague diagnosis encompassing discrepancies between being comprised of a set of
behavioural patterns or a disorder routed within the person. Findings also suggested an
understanding of BPD as enveloped in gender norms, as the exhibiting of... (More) - The objective of this study was to through means of discourse analyse examine how
borderline personality disorder (BPD) and those diagnosed with it were constructed on
nine websites offering information about the diagnosis. Findings suggested that the
concept of BPD was difficult to grasp, both for those who receive the diagnosis and for
those around them. Further emerged a picture of the adult diagnosed with BPD
consistently reduced to being understood more like a child. BPD was found to be a
vague diagnosis encompassing discrepancies between being comprised of a set of
behavioural patterns or a disorder routed within the person. Findings also suggested an
understanding of BPD as enveloped in gender norms, as the exhibiting of those emotions
and behaviours which are included in the symptomatology are, by means of social
structures, perceived differently depending on a person’s gender. (Less)
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- author
- Bainbridge, Sara LU and Svensson, Caroline I
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- You are ill - but not really. A study of the construction of borderline personality disorder on websites
- course
- SOPA63 20181
- year
- 2018
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- borderline personality disorder, diagnosis, gender, discourse analysis, constructionism, emotionellt instabil personlighetsstörning, borderline, psykisk ohälsa, konstruktionism, diskursanalys, kön, genus
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 8944742
- date added to LUP
- 2018-06-05 10:09:55
- date last changed
- 2018-06-05 10:09:55
@misc{8944742, abstract = {{The objective of this study was to through means of discourse analyse examine how borderline personality disorder (BPD) and those diagnosed with it were constructed on nine websites offering information about the diagnosis. Findings suggested that the concept of BPD was difficult to grasp, both for those who receive the diagnosis and for those around them. Further emerged a picture of the adult diagnosed with BPD consistently reduced to being understood more like a child. BPD was found to be a vague diagnosis encompassing discrepancies between being comprised of a set of behavioural patterns or a disorder routed within the person. Findings also suggested an understanding of BPD as enveloped in gender norms, as the exhibiting of those emotions and behaviours which are included in the symptomatology are, by means of social structures, perceived differently depending on a person’s gender.}}, author = {{Bainbridge, Sara and Svensson, Caroline I}}, language = {{swe}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{Du är sjuk - men inte på riktigt. En studie om webbsidors konstruktion av emotionellt instabil personlighetsstörning}}, year = {{2018}}, }