Sarah Doerksen
M.A. History Student
| Degrees: | B.A. Hons (Queen's) |
Supervisors: Jennifer Evans and Dominique Marshall
Areas of Research:
My research examines developments within Canadian psychiatry which coincided with changes to the way in which the public conceptualizes schizophrenia. My work will contextualize this conceptual shift by comparing the perspectives of the public and of individuals who experience schizophrenia. The purpose of this study is to call attention to the ways in which schizophrenia has been conceptualized historically, based on different types of information and by different actors, in order to emphasize the malleability of this process as well as to provoke a discussion to improve the representation of schizophrenia in the public domain.