Authors of published texts: Justyna Ziółkowska

About the author

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• Justyna Ziółkowska

  Born in 1981. A psychologist, Doctor habilitatus of social sciences, professor at the Second Faculty of Psychology at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities based in Warsaw, and the Department of Humanities at the Wrocław branch of the SWPS University.

• In 2005, she graduated with a degree in psychology from the University of Opole. On September 22, 2009, she defended her doctoral dissertation titled The Experience of Illness and Diagnostic Criteria. A Discourse Analysis of Psychiatric Interviews with Patients with Preliminary Diagnoses of Depressive Disorders (supervisor: Dariusz Galasiński). On December 20, 2016, she obtained her habilitation based on the work Suicide. A Narrative Analysis of People After Suicide Attempts.

  She was employed as an assistant professor at the Second Faculty of Psychology at SWPS University in Warsaw and the Department of Humanities at the Wrocław branch of the SWPS University. Her academic interests focus on discourse analysis of medical practices, the experience of mental illness, as well as suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

  She was a member of the Young Scientists Council (an Advisory Body to the Minister) at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

• Selected publications

  • Identity ambivalence and embodiment in women's accounts of the gynaecological examination (2007)
  • Gender and gynaecological examination: Women's identities In doctors' narratives (2007)
  • Doświadczenie choroby a kryteria diagnostyczne. Analiza dyskursu wywiadów psychiatrycznych z pacjentami ze wstępnymi diagnozami zaburzeń depresyjnych (2009)
  • The representation of illness manifestation during the first psychiatric interview with patients preliminary diagnosed with depressive illness (2011)
  • The objectifying discourse of doctors’ questions. Qualitative analysis of psychiatric interviews (2012)
  • Managing information. Misrepresentation in the patient’s notes (2013)
  • Time and the psychiatric interview: The negotiation of temporal criteria of the depressive disorder (2013)
  • Samobójstwo. Analiza narracji osób po próbach samobójczych (2016)