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- Title
Symbolism of community I: the boundary between hospital and community.
- Authors
Barrett, Robert J.; Parker, Damon B.
- Abstract
Objective: To study the symbolism of community as understood and practised in a mental health Crisis and Assessment Service in an Australian city. Theoretical approaches: The paper draws on anthropological theories of symbolism and boundary work. Method: Ethnographic fieldwork techniques were employed for data collection. Ethnographic analysis was then applied to these data. Results: In mental health practice, community is primarily defined in contradistinction to hospital. Narratives about community, including an orthodox version and a sceptical counter-narrative, revolve around this community–hospital boundary. Conclusions: This analysis identifies a key symbol, which we have designated community, and enumerates the social values that comprise it.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; SYMBOLISM (Psychology); ETHNOLOGY; ANTHROPOLOGY; COMMUNITY health services; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PATHOLOGICAL psychology
- Publication
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2006, Vol 40, Issue 4, p310
- ISSN
0004-8674
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/j.1440-1614.2006.01796.x