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Sowińska, Agnieszka. 2018. ‘I didn’t want to be Psycho no. 1’: Identity struggles in narratives of patients presenting medically unexplained symptoms. Discourse Studies 20 (4) : 506–522.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

disease terminology | identity negotiation | metaphor | narrative | patient

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper examines identity tussles linked to the experience of living with medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) in disease narratives of MUS-patients. These patients constitute therapeutic and communication dares as their diagnostics do not have a clear underlying diagnosis.