Addressing healthcare on-line demand and supply relating to mental illness: Knowledge sharing about psychiatry and psychoanalysis through social networks in Italy and France

The study presented in this chapter explores the influence of social networks in directing and shaping the supply of, and demand for, healthcare services – specifically systems and therapies for the treatment and rehabilitation of mental disorders. For this purpose, knowledge sharing and co-construction processes of social representations of psychoanalysis and psychiatry, the images of the relevant professionals (psychoanalysts and psychiatrists), and their social practices are investigated within Annamaria Silvana de Rosa Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Emanuele Fino Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Elena Bocci Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Addressing Healthcare On-Line Demand and Supply Relating to Mental Illness

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