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Oversimplified Images: Comments on “Control Or Treatment? Experiences of People Who Have Been Psychiatrically Hospitalized in New Brunswick”

Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
April 1995

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Miedema (1994) presented several observations about psychiatric hospitalization in New Brunswick based on interviews with 48 formerly hospitalized patients. These observations are taken by Miedema to represent data from which “concepts” about the experience of hospitalization are said to evolve. In at least six areas, however, the images created by Miedema are greatly oversimplified. Moreover, they do not uniquely support the particular psychiatric perspective which Miedema wishes to put forward. Equally valid data and images about hospitalization, not without their own oversimplifications, could have been obtained from persons advancing a credulous rather than only a skeptical perspective on mental illness.

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Miedema (1994) a présenté plusieurs observations touchant l'hospitalisation en psychiatrie au Nouveau Brunswick, è partir d'entrevues réalisées auprès de 48 patients ayant connu l'hospitalisation. Ces observations sont vues par Miedema comme des données de base d'ou émergent les divers «concepts» définissant l'expérience d'hospitaliastion. Toutefois, dans au moins six secteurs, les représentations créées par Miedema sont caricaturales. De plus, elles ne supportent pas de façon décisive la perspective psychiatrique particulière que Miedema entend mettre de l'avant. Des données et des représentations tout aussi valides de l'hospitalisation, avec leur propres «sursimplifications» sans doute, auraient pu être obtenues avec des personnes adoptant un point de vue plus favorable è l'idée de maladie mentale, plutôt qu'un point de vue exclusivement critique.

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cover image Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 14Number 1April 1995
Pages: 129 - 132

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Stewart Page

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