Constructions of the self in interaction with the Beck Depression Inventory

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Abstract: In this article, I am interested in discourses of people completing the Polish version of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). I focus upon the negotiation of the spaces for constructing the self opened by the BDI. My corpus consists of transcripts of 50 sessions in which self-reportedly healthy people were asked to `think aloud' while completing the BDI. I shall demonstrate that in interactions with the `depression scale', the informants mostly rejected the spaces offered by it. Three strategies of such rejection are discussed: reformulation, recontextualization and an explicit challenge to the categories offered by the BDI. I shall argue that the concerns of lived experience in a particular context, when not subdued by the relationship of power in the situation of medical examination, overrule the frame imposed by the a-contextual questionnaire of sadness. Insight into depression or its intensity offered by `context-free' psychological or psychiatric instrument, set outside lived

Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main

Extent: Online-Ressource

Language: Englisch

Notes: Postprint
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Health ; 12 (2008) 4 ; 515-533

Event: Veröffentlichung

(where): Mannheim

(when): 2008

Creator: Galasiński, Dariusz

DOI: 10.1177/1363459308094423

URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-226323

Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.

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