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‘It feels as if time has come to a standstill’: institutionalised everyday lives among youth with a mental illness
- Authors:
- KESSING Malene Lue, RAVN Signe
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Youth Studies, 20(8), 2017, pp.959-973.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This paper focuses on the everyday lives of young people with a severe mental illness living temporarily at a social psychiatric housing facility in Denmark. In the paper we take a temporal approach to the analysis of this and we draw on Henri Lefebvre’s work on rhythm analysis to investigate the differences between the rhythms of everyday life within the institution and the rhythms of what is perceived as the everyday life of ‘ordinary’ youth. The authors also show how digital technologies play a central part in these institutionalised everyday lives by creating connections as well as disruptions between different time-spaces. Centrally, the authors point to the positive and negative consequences this has for the young peoples’ sense of self. Empirically, the paper is based on a four-month ethnographic fieldwork at the housing facility in 2014. (Edited publisher abstract)
Mortality and causes of death in a total national sample of patients with affective disorders admitted for the first time between 1973 and 1993
- Authors:
- HOYER Eyd Hansen, MORTENSEN Preben Bo, OLESEN Anne V.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 176, January 2000, pp.76-82.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This Danish study describes the pattern of mortality in patients with affective disorder and to study changes in suicide risk during the study period. Mortality from all natural and unnatural causes was elevated in all subgroups of affective disorder. More attention should be paid to the risk of suicide and physical illness in patients with affective disorders.