This Handbook gathers together empirical and theoretical chapters from leading scholars and clinicians to examine the broad issue of adult mental health. The contributors draw upon data from a variety of contexts to illustrate the multiple ways in which language as action can assist us in better understanding the discursive practices that surround adult mental health.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction: The Social Construction of Normality and Pathology - Michelle O'Reilly and Jessica Nina Lester
• Part I Reconceptualising Mental Health and Illness
• 1 The History and Landscape of Conversation and Discourse Analysis - Jessica Nina Lester and Michelle O'Reilly
• 2 Using Discourse and Conversation Analysis to Study Clinical Practice in Adult Mental Health - Nikki Kiyimba
• 3 The Research Interview in Adult Mental Health: Problems and Possibilities for Discourse Studies - Julie Hepworth and Chris McVittie
• 4 Inclusive Conversation Analysis with Disabled People - Val Williams, Marcus Jepson, Lisa Ponting, and Kerrie Ford
• 5 The Discursive Construction of Drug Realities: Discourses on Drugs, Users, and Drug-Related Practices - Benno Herzog
• 6 The Construction of Adult ADHD: Anna's Story - Alison Davies and Mary Horton-Salway
• 7 Using Discourse Analysis to Investigate How Bipolar Disorder Is Constructed as an Object - Lynere Wilson and Marie Crowe
• 8 Discourses of Autism on Film: An Analysis of Memorable Images that Create Definition - Andrea Garner, Valerie Harwood, and Sandra C. Jones
• 9 Abuse Victims and High-Profile Offenders: A Discourse Analysis of Victim Construction and Adult Mental Health - Naima Fowlis, Michelle O'Reilly, and Mary Farrelly
• Part II Naming, Labelling, and Diagnosing
• 10 Diagnosing as an Interactional Achievement in Psychiatric Interviews - Carles Roca-Cuberes
• 11 Psychogenic Non-epileptic Seizures: How Doctors Use Medical Labels when They Communicate and Explain the Diagnosis - Chiara M. Monzoni and Markus Reuber
• 12 The Process of Social Labelling of Mental Illness: An Analysis of Family Conversations - Milena Silva Lisboa and Mary Jane Paris Spink
• 13 Making Mental Disorders Visible: Proto-Morality as Diagnostic Resource in Psychiatric Exploration - Jörg R. Bergmann
• 14 The Role of Self-Disclosure in the Social Construction of Understandings of Alcoholism and Mental Health within Talk between Members of Alcoholics Anonymous - Matthew S. Thatcher
• 15 ‘But How Often Does This Happen?’: Problem Reducing Responses by Coaches in Email Counselling - Joyce Lamerichs and Wyke Stommel
• 16 Does ana = Anorexia? Online Interaction and the Construction of New Discursive Objects - David C. Giles
• Part III The Discursive Practice of Psychiatry
• 17 Exploring the Heterogeneity of ‘Schizophrenic Speech’ - Lisa Mikesell and Elizabeth Bromley
• 18 Mental Health Treatment Planning: A Dis/Empowering Process - Michael A. Mancini
• 19 Team Work in Action: Building Grounds for Psychiatric Medication Decisions in Assertive Community Treatment - Beth Angell and Galina B. Bolden
• 20 ‘Good’ Communication in Schizophrenia: A Conversation Analytic Definition - Laura Thompson and Rose McCabe
• 21 ‘Talk about Trouble’: Practitioner Discourses on Service Users Who Are Judged to Be Resisting, Contesting, or Evading Treatment - Mike Hazelton and Rachel Rossiter
• 22 Conversation with an Adult with Features of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Secure Forensic Care - Sushie Dobbinson
• 23 A Critical Discursive Perspective on Psychiatric Hospitals - Claire Bone and Nichola Marchant
• Part IV Therapy and Interventions
• 24 Discursive Awareness and Resourcefulness: Bringing Discursive Researchers into Closer Dialogue with Discursive Therapists? - Tom Strong
• 25 Therapeutic Practice as Social Construction - Kenneth J. Gergen and Ottar Ness
• 26 The Value of Using Discourse and Conversation Analysis as Evidence to Inform Practice in Counselling and Therapeutic Interactions - Nikki Kiyimba and Michelle O'Reilly
• 27 Interactional Practices of Psychotherapy - Liisa Voutilainen and Anssi Peräkylä
• 28 Finding the Middle Ground between Therapist-Centred and Client-Centred Metaphor Research in Psychotherapy - Dennis Tay
• 29 Storytelling, Depression, and Psychotherapy - Peter Muntigl
• 30 Using Discourse Analysis to Develop Understanding of Suicide Risk Assessment - Ric Bowl and Andrew Reeves
• 31 Communicative Practices in Staff Support of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities - Charles Antaki, W. M. L. Finlay, Chris Walton, and Joe Sempik
• 32 Discovering Mental Ill Health: ‘Problem-Solving’ in an English Magistrates’ Court - Timothy Auburn, Cordet Smart, Gisella Hanley Santos, Jill Annison, and Daniel Gilling
• 33 Discourses of Abuse and Recovery: Talking about Domestic Violence and Its Implications for Therapy - Henderikus J. Stam, Michaela Zverina, H. Lorraine Radtke, and Robbie Babins-Wagner
• 34 When Assistance Is Not Given: Disaffiliative Responses to Therapeutic Community Clients’ Implicit Requests - Marco Pino
• Glossary