Border Lands: Women's Experiences of Diagnosis, Treatment and Everyday Life with Borderline Personality Disorder.

本研究旨在探讨女性对于边缘型人格障碍诊断与治疗的意义。由于BPD是一种经常被误解和研究不足的疾病，那些被诊断为BPD的人在社会和临床环境中都面临着巨大的耻辱。通过与被诊断为BPD的女性接触，我将提供一个关于女性如何通过复杂的精神疾病的标签来导航边缘化经历的原始描述。对于我的方法，我将从东北部的BPD支持团体中抽取30名妇女作为样本。我将利用基于艺术的研讨会，半结构化访谈和焦点小组的组合，使用视觉刺激来引发讨论并创建丰富的数据。我还将分析文献，详细介绍了18世纪和19世纪诊断患有歇斯底里症的妇女的治疗，以揭示当代和历史实践，主题和假设之间的共同话语支持妇女的精神疾病。这一数据集将使用话语分析进行解释，这将涉及妇女在诊断后构建和重建其身份和生活的复杂方式。这项研究将为精神病学社会学做出原创性贡献，通过将被诊断患有有争议的疾病的女性的声音融入工作中，填补了关于BPD的社会学文献中的空白。

This research seeks to explore the meanings women attach to their diagnosis and treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). As BPD is a frequently misunderstood and under-researched disorder, those who carry the diagnosis face great stigma in both social and clinical settings. By engaging with women who have had a diagnosis of BPD, I will provide an original account of how women navigate the experience of marginalisation via the label of a complex psychiatric disorder. For my methodology, I will take a sample of 30 women from BPD support groups in the North East. I will utilise a combination of art-based workshops, semi-structured interviews and focus groups using visual stimuli to provoke discussion and create rich data. I will also analyse literature which details the treatment of women diagnosed with hysteria in the 18th and 19th centuries to uncover shared discourses between contemporary and historical practices, themes, and assumptions underpinning women's mental illness. This data set will be interpreted using discourse analysis, which will engage with the complex ways women construct and reconstruct their identities and lives following a diagnosis. This research will provide an originalcontribution to the sociology of psychiatry, filling a gap in the sociological literature regarding BPD by integrating the voices of the women who have been diagnosed with the controversial disorder into the work.