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chronotopes of varying temporalities and partialities diverge, and the ethical discourse of architectonic
questions reverberates into many other discourses. It indicates therefore that the complexity of the
narratives and emergent stories of Michael Jackson’s death is unmerged and ‘unfinalised’ if one want to
get to the ‘bottom’of the story.
Dialogism is a complex notion, it is a weave of many storytellers and listeners who together co-construct
the meanings of a dynamic that reduce living story into complete collective meaning as a necessary
outcome as opposed to ante-narrative amplification (Boje, 2008).
The contribution of this paper to knowledge is the proposal that although linearity or hierarchical
approaches to knowledge creation is making impact in society, the impact will be great and more
beneficially however, if the interaction among the actors is on a spiral relationship, that is on a collective
level by way of collaboration to resolve the problems identified collectively in order to achieve ‘complete
collective satisfaction’ particularly in the service delivery system.
In the case of mental health care delivery system ‘Complete collective satisfaction’ is achievable only if
the mental health care system moves from the level of abstract categorisation such as planning or
reforms to the level of collaboration. This means that the way forward is therefore, the re-organisation of
the system which is exclusive to the NHS or government (target setting) to a level of multifunctional and
interdependent interaction where consideration is given the environment, other service providers, clients,
financiers, the public and in fact all stakeholders.
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