Deconstructing Psychopathology

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Governing emotionally vulnerable subjects and ‘therapisation’ of social justice (2015, background): “This has had profound effects on identity, personal and cultural discourses and social and institutional practices (e.g. Foucault 1967; Hardt 1995; Parker 1995; Rose 1999; De Vos 2012; Burman 2014).”
Positive psychology in practice (2004, background): “As are these other social constructions, our concepts of psychological normality and abnormality are tied ultimately to social values—in particular, the values of society’s most powerful individuals, groups, and institutions—and the contextual rules for behavior derived from these values (Becker, 19”
Talking about work stress: Discourse analysis and implications for stress interventions (2005, background): “…of workplace problems, in which clerical workers viewed themselves as ‘patients’, is a subject position (i.e. the way people experience and feel about themselves) that has previously been associated with the experience of being powerless and having a lack of control (cf. Parker et al., 1999).”