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@article{ Galasiński2008, title = {Constructions of the self in interaction with the Beck Depression Inventory}, author = {Galasiński, Dariusz}, journal = {Health}, number = {4}, pages = {515-533}, volume = {12}, year = {2008}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459308094423}, urn = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-226323}, abstract = {In this article, I am interested in discourses of people completing the Polish version of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). I focus upon the negotiation of the spaces for constructing the self opened by the BDI. My corpus consists of transcripts of 50 sessions in which self-reportedly healthy people were asked to `think aloud' while completing the BDI. I shall demonstrate that in interactions with the `depression scale', the informants mostly rejected the spaces offered by it. Three strategies of such rejection are discussed: reformulation, recontextualization and an explicit challenge to the categories offered by the BDI. I shall argue that the concerns of lived experience in a particular context, when not subdued by the relationship of power in the situation of medical examination, overrule the frame imposed by the a-contextual questionnaire of sadness. Insight into depression or its intensity offered by `context-free' psychological or psychiatric instrument, set outside lived experience, is extremely problematic.}, keywords = {BDI; Depression; BDI; depression}}