Experiences of psychosis on social media
Method Stream: Text Mining
ECs Both 14 and 23 EC thesis possible
Description:
Psychosis is a unique, subjective phenomenological experience that can be difficult for someone without an experience of psychosis to comprehend. Although antipsychotic medication is the first line of clinical treatment response, it is also very important for a clinician to empathically enter the meaning world of a patient going through an experience of psychosis. One way to start making sense of this meaning world is to systematically examine social media posts such as those on Reddit. Subreddits such as r/Psychosis, r/Hallucinations, r/Schizophrenia may be good places to examine, but there are other platforms to explore.
The assignment could focus on different experiences surrounding psychosis such as delusions, hallucinations, erotomania, negative symptoms, and many others. It could take the form of sentiment analysis or topic modeling. You will be expected to scrape textual data yourself from media such as Reddit or specific discussion forums.