Linda
Sirkiä
Doctoral Researcher, Finnish, Finno-Ugric and Scandinavian languages

Areas of expertise

communication
complaints
discourse analysis
dissatisfaction
Finnish
reminders
text linguistics
texts in healthcare

Research

I study the construction of self-image and the narratives regarding patients’ identities in videos filmed for psychotherapy. I look at how the informants talk about themselves in regards to their Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosis in the context of group schema therapy.