Practical compassions: repertoires of practice and compassion talk in acute mental healthcare

This article reports an exploratory study of the concept of compassion in the work of 20 mental health practitioners in a UK Midlands facility. Using notions of practice derived from phenomenology and Bourdieusian sociology and notions of emotional labour we identify two contrasting interpretive rep...

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Main Authors: Brown, Brian, Crawford, Paul, Gilbert, Paul, Gilbert, Jean, Gale, Corinne
Format: Article
Published: Wiley 2014
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40699/