Border Lands: Women's Experiences of Diagnosis, Treatment and Everyday Life with Borderline Personality Disorder.

边境之地：女性边缘性人格障碍的诊断、治疗和日常生活经历。

• 批准号: 2888116
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2888116
• 关键词: Border; Lands; Women; Experiences; Diagnosis

This research seeks to explore the meanings women attach to their diagnosis and treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). As BPD is a frequently misunderstood and under-researched disorder, those who carry the diagnosis face great stigma in both social and clinical settings. By engaging with women who have had a diagnosis of BPD, I will provide an original account of how women navigate the experience of marginalisation via the label of a complex psychiatric disorder. For my methodology, I will take a sample of 30 women from BPD support groups in the North East. I will utilise a combination of art-based workshops, semi-structured interviews and focus groups using visual stimuli to provoke discussion and create rich data. I will also analyse literature which details the treatment of women diagnosed with hysteria in the 18th and 19th centuries to uncover shared discourses between contemporary and historical practices, themes, and assumptions underpinning women's mental illness. This data set will be interpreted using discourse analysis, which will engage with the complex ways women construct and reconstruct their identities and lives following a diagnosis. This research will provide an originalcontribution to the sociology of psychiatry, filling a gap in the sociological literature regarding BPD by integrating the voices of the women who have been diagnosed with the controversial disorder into the work.

本研究旨在探讨女性对边缘性人格障碍 (BPD) 的诊断和治疗的意义。由于边缘性人格障碍是一种经常被误解和研究不足的疾病，因此患有这种疾病的人在社会和临床环境中都面临着巨大的耻辱。通过与被诊断患有边缘性人格障碍的女性进行接触，我将提供一个原创的叙述，说明女性如何通过复杂的精神疾病的标签来应对边缘化的经历。在我的方法中，我将从东北部 BPD 支持团体中抽取 30 名女性作为样本。我将结合基于艺术的研讨会、半结构化访谈和焦点小组，利用视觉刺激来引发讨论并创建丰富的数据。我还将分析详细描述 18 世纪和 19 世纪被诊断患有癔症的女性的治疗方法的文献，以揭示当代和历史实践、主题和支撑女性精神疾病的假设之间的共同话语。该数据集将使用话语分析进行解释，该分析将涉及女性在诊断后构建和重建其身份和生活的复杂方式。这项研究将为精神病学社会学做出原创性贡献，通过将被诊断患有这种有争议的疾病的女性的声音纳入工作中，填补有关 BPD 的社会学文献的空白。