Madness, sex, and risk: A poststructural analysis
| Autor: | Chris Quinn, Dave Holmes, Alicia Evans |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Attitude of Health Personnel
Subject (philosophy) Human sexuality Context (language use) Risk Assessment governmentality Paternalism 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Agency (sociology) sex Humans 030212 general & internal medicine General Nursing Governmentality risk poststructuralism 030504 nursing Foucault Mental Disorders madness Mental health Sexual desire 0305 other medical science Psychology Social psychology Sexuality mental health |
| Zdroj: | Nursing inquiryREFERENCES. 27(4) |
| ISSN: | 1440-1800 |
| Popis: | The body of the one deemed mad often remains a sexual body with sexual needs. Mental health services respond to these demands of the body in various ways, including constructing rules around physical movement. In this context, we were interested in how mental health clinicians problematized the sexual needs and practices of residents of a long-stay mental health rehabilitation facility and how solutions were constructed in relation to the residents' sexual desires. This paper reports findings from mental health clinicians, as part of a case study where we addressed this question. Mental health clinicians responded to residents' sexuality from a discourse of risk. The notion of the engagement with each resident as a sexual subject was subordinated to the paternalistic notion of protecting the patient from risk. The resident became an object to be monitored and protected rather than a subject with sexual desire and agency. This paternalism also showed itself in relation to a 'no-sex on-site' rule that allowed for a shift of risk from the organization to the resident. Residents, rather than having a relatively safe place to have sexual relations, were required to find a place elsewhere, potentially unsafe, outside the facility. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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