Politico-Critical Analysis: A New Research Framework Applied to Psychiatry

Background: This article presents a new framework called politico-critical analysis based on the contentions of Foucauldian discourse analysis. The framework was developed to address a number of shortcomings and assess further aspects of importance to fields such as mental health and psychiatry. Aim: To present the main principles and steps of the politico-critical analysis framework and, subsequently, to demonstrate its application to a study...