Course Kvalitativ forskning i psykiatri: Sammenhænge mellem kultur og psykisk lidelse

ECTS: 2

Course leader: Karen Schriver

Language: Danish

Graduate school: Faculty of Arts

Course fee: 0.00 DKK

Status: Course is open for application

Semester: Fall 2025

Application deadline: 24/09/2025

Cancellation deadline: 24/09/2025

Course type: Classroom teaching

Start date: 15/10/2025

Administrator: Andreas Mølgaard Laursen

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Course description

Dette todages kursus fokuserer på den kvalitative forsknings bidrag til forståelsen af psykisk lidelse, med særlig vægt på krydsfeltet mellem antropologi og psykiatri. Kurset udforsker psykiatriens dilemmaer og giver deltagerne redskaber til kritisk at undersøge psykisk sundhed ud fra diskursive, sociale og historiske perspektiver.

Vi undersøger blandt andet, hvordan etnografiske metoder og perspektiver kan berige psykiatrisk forskning og udfordre konventionelle paradigmer. Andre emner omfatter kulturens og identitetens betydning i psykiske lidelser samt diskurser fra og om psykiatriske brugere.

Gennem case-studier, diskussioner og praktiske øvelser opnår deltagerne en dybere forståelse af, hvordan sociale, kulturelle og rumlige faktorer former oplevelsen og behandlingen af psykiske lidelser – og hvordan denne indsigt kan bidrage til en mere helhedsorienteret og effektiv psykiatrisk praksis. Kurset berører desuden etiske spørgsmål i arbejdet med sårbare befolkningsgrupper samt metodiske overvejelser før, under og efter dataindsamlingen.

Som en del af kurset får de studerende mulighed for at diskutere egne data eller analyser med underviserne.

Aim/Learning outcomes

De studerende vil opnå:

  • Forståelse af hvordan antropologi og kvalitativ forskning bidrager til psykiatrisk forskning og praksis
  • Evnen til kritisk at vurdere psykiatriske klassifikationer og diagnoser fra en kulturel synsvinkel
  • Mulighed for kritisk at overveje etiske og metodiske dilemmaer i at udføre forskning med udsatte befolkningsgrupper

Requirements for participation

  • Der forudsættes et grundlæggende kendskab til etnografiske/kvalitative metoder.

Target group/Participants

  • Alle med en interesse for psykiatri og kvalitative metoder

Workload

  • Course/teaching hours: Begge dage fra 9-15.30
  • Preparation hours: 50 timer, cirka (læsning, skrivning, læsning af de andres tekster)
  • Written assignment: Efter tildeling af pladser efter tilmeldingsfristen skal alle deltagere sende 2-3 siders tekst, der skal indeholde en kort introduktion til projektet og et dilemma. Dilemmaet kan være en feltnote der er svær at få styr på eller en anden begivenhed/problemstilling, der bliver ved med at drille. Deltagerne får feedback på deres tekst under kurset, og alle deltagere forventes at læse hinandens tekster inden kurset.

Language 

  • Dansk

Lecturers

  • Agnes Ringer
  • Anne Mia Steno

Literature

Primær litteratur:

Harrington, B. (2003). The Social Psychology of Access in Ethnographic Research. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 32(5), 592–625.

Holen, M., Ringer, A., & Steno, A. M. (2025). Troublesome Bodies: How Bodies Come to Matter and Intrude in Eating Disorder Recovery. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1007/S11013-025-09896-6/METRICS

Morgan, A. (2015). Is psychiatry dying? Crisis and critique in contemporary psychiatry. Social Theory & Health, 13(2), 141–161.

Oeye, C., Bjelland, A. K., & Skorpen, A. (2007). Doing participant observation in a psychiatric hospital-- research ethics resumed. Social Science & Medicine, 65(11), 2296–2306. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17765376

Pilgrim, D., & Rogers, A. (2005). The Troubled Relationship between Psychiatry and Sociology. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 51(3), 228–241.

Ringer, A. (2013). Researcher-participant positioning and the discursive work of categories: experiences from fieldwork in the mental health services. Qualitative Studies, 4(1), 1–20.

Ringer, A., & Holen, M. (2015). “Hell no, they’ll think you’re mad as a hatter”: Illness discourses and their implications for patients in mental health practice. Health, 20(2).

Ringer, A., & Holen, M. (2021). Discursive Ethnography: Understanding psychiatric discourses and patient positions through fieldwork. In G. Brookes & D. Hunt (Eds.), Analysing Health Communication: Discourse Approaches. Palgrave Macmillan.

Rose, D., & Rose, N. (2023). Is “another” psychiatry possible? Psychological Medicine, 53(1), 46–54. https://doi.org/10.1017/S003329172200383X

Speed, E. (2006). Patients, consumers and survivors: a case study of mental health service user discourses. Social Science & Medicine, 62(1), 28–38.

Steno, Anne Mia (2023) Bodies and orientations. Perspectives and strategies among service users in psychosocial rehabilitation housing facilities in Denmark. Anthropology & Medicine. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13648470.2023.2181573

Steno, Anne Mia & Jønsson, Alexandra (2022) Spaces out of reach? Service user involvement in residents’ meetings at recovery-oriented social housing facilities for young people with mental health disorders. Health. An interdisciplinary for the Social Study of Health, Illness and

Medicine. 1-17. Medforfatter: Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634593221075950

Steno, Anne Mia (2020) Farlig intimitet? Nærhed og distance i feltarbejdet. I: Jordens Folk. Temanummer om intimitet. Etnografisk forening. 55. årgang. Nr. 1.

Supplerende litteratur:

Barrett, R. (2006). The Psychiatric Team and the Social Definition of Schizophrenia: An Anthropological Study of Person and Illness. Cambridge University Press

Bracken, P., Thomas, P., Timimi, S., Asen, E., Behr, G., Beuster, C., Bhunnoo, S., Browne, I., Chhina, N., Double, D., Downer, S., Evans, C., Fernando, S., Garland, M. R., Hopkins, W., Huws, R., Johnson, B., Martindale, B., Middleton, H., … Yeomans, D. (2012). Psychiatry beyond the current paradigm. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 201(6), 430–434.

Georgaca, E. (2014). Discourse analytic research on mental distress: A critical overview. Journal of Mental Health, 23(2), 55–61. https://doi.org/10.3109/09638237.2012.734648

Goffman, E. (1989). On Fieldwork. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 18(2), 123–132. Jenkins, Janis H. & Thomas J. Csordas (2020). Troubled in the Land of Enchantment: Adolescent Experience of Psychiatric Treatment. Oakland: University of California Press

Harper, D. (2004). Delusions and Discourse: Moving Beyond the Constraints of the Modernist Paradigm. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 11(1), 55–64.

Harper, D. J., & Speed, E. (2012). Uncovering recovery: the resistible rise of recovery and resilience. Studies in Social Justice, 6(1), 9–25.

Hasse, Cathrine (1995) Fra journalist til Big Mamma. Om sociale rollers betydning for antropologers datagenerering. Tidsskriftet Antropologi. https://doi.org/10.7146/ta.v0i31.115456 Jenkins, Janis H. (2015) Extraordinary Conditions: Culture and Experience in Mental Health. University of California Press.

Rapley, M., Moncrieff, M. & Dillon, J. (2011). De-medicalizing misery: psychiatry, psychology and the human cognition. Palgrave Macmillan.

Ringer, A., & Holen, M. (2019). Regulation and resistance in the smoking room at mental health ward: struggles for a space ´in-between´. In L. McGrath & P. Reavey (Eds.), The Handbook of

Mental Health and Space. Community and Clinical Applications (1st ed., pp. 39–49). Routledge.

Steno, Anne Mia & Hauge, Sara (2024) Stemmer fra socialpsykiatrien. Rettigheder. Ressourcer. Recovery. Samfundslitteratur.

van der Geest, S., & Finkler, K. (2004). Hospital ethnography: introduction. Social Science & Medicine, 59(10), 1995–2001. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15351467

Venue

  • 15 October 2025, 09.00-15.30: Jens Chr. Skous Vej 2 , 8000 Aarhus C. Building 1485, room 238
  • 16 October 2025, 09.00-15.30: Jens Chr. Skous Vej 2 , 8000 Aarhus C. Building 1485, room 238

Course dates:

  • 15 October 2025 09:00 - 15:30
  • 16 October 2025 09:00 - 15:30