Applying discursive approaches to health psychology.
Health PsychologyPublished 1 January 2015
Sarah Seymour‐Smith
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Diets are typically depicted as an individual responsibility in mainstream health psychology, but discursive research highlights how discourses are collectively produced and bound up with social practices.
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Diets are typically depicted as an individual responsibility in mainstream health psychology, but discursive research highlights how discourses are collectively produced and bound up with social practices.
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