PSYC 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Michel Foucault, Social Representation, Foucauldian Discourse Analysis

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3110
• Professor: Kieran O'Doherty

Document Summary

Topics in health psychology- lecture 10 and chapter 15. If you have a different representation you might have a different coping style: consequences of coping evaluated and revised, self-regulated model of illness, lau & hartman (1983, extension of model: common sense model (csm) of illness. Evaluation and development of cognitive model: need to explore relevance of model to different conditions, rather than assume universal validity. It is so frustrating when health care providers cannot do anything or say it is nothing when you are in an immense amount of pain. Instead, focus on discourse itself (not the psychological states it is meant to represent: discursive psychology, foucauldian discourse analysis, look at the qualitative health lecture. Discursive psychology: middleton (cid:523)(cid:883)996(cid:524): talking about illness is not (cid:498)a display of inner working of minds(cid:499) but (cid:498)part of the process is making health care experiences socially intelligible(cid:499) attribution of responsibility; excusing behaviours .