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An exceptional showcase of interdisciplinary research, Critical Inquiries for Social Justice in Mental Health presents various critical theories, methodologies, and methods for transforming mental health research and fostering socially-just mental health practices.
Marina Morrow and Lorraine Halinka Malcoe have assembled an array of international scholars, activists, and practitioners whose work exposes and disrupts the dominant neoliberal and individualist practices found in contemporary mental research, policy, and practice. The contributors employ a variety of methodologies including intersectional, decolonizing, indigenous, feminist, post-structural, transgender, queer, and critical realist approaches in order to interrogate the manifestation of power relations in mental health systems and its impact on people with mental distress. Additionally, the contributors enable the reader to reimagine systems and supports designed from the bottom up, in which the people most affected have decision-making authority over their formations. Critical Inquiries for Social Justice in Mental Health demonstrates why and how theory matters for knowledge production, policy, and practice in mental health, and it creates new imaginings of decolonized and democratized mental health systems, of abundant community-centred supports, and of a world where human differences are affirmed.
Contents
Preface
Introduction: Science, Social (In)Justice and Mental Health
LORRAINE HALINKA MALCOE AND MARINA MORROW
Part One: Foregrounding Social Justice Theorizing
1 "Women and Madness" Revisited: The Promise of Intersectional & Mad Studies Frameworks
MARINA MORROW
2 A 'Third Space' for Doing Social Justice Research
VIVIANE JOSEWSKI 3 Global Psychiatrization and Psychic Colonization: The Coloniality of Global Mental Health
CHINA MILLS
Part Two: Decolonizing Research and Practice
4 Mental Health in Africa: Human Rights Approaches to Decolonization
MOHAMED IBRAHIM
5 Dancing with Complexity: Decolonization and Social Justice Dialogues
RUBY PETERSON AND SABINA CHATTERJEE
6 Melq'ilwiye: Coming Together: Intersections of Identity, Sovereignty and Mental Health for Urban Indigenous Youth
NATALIE CLARK, PATRICK WALTON, JULIE DROLET, TARA TRIBUTE, GEORGIA JULES, TALICIA MAIN & MIKE ARNOUSE
Part Three: Gender(ing), Discourse and Power
7 Is It Normal or PMS? Women's Strategies Negotiating and Resisting Negative Premenstrual Change
JANE M. USSHER AND JANETTE PERZ
8 Depression in Workplaces: Governmentality, Feminist Analysis and Neoliberalism
KATHERINE TEGHTSOONIAN
9 Gender Nonconformity or Psychiatric Noncompliance? How Organized Noncompliance Can Offer a Future without Psychiatry
JEMMA TOSH
Part Four: Media as a Site of Social (In)Justice
10 (De)Pathologization: Transsexuality, Gynecomastia and the Negotiation of Mental Health Diagnoses in Online Communities
T. GARNER
11 "One in Five": The Prevalence Problematic in Mental Illness Discourse
TANYA TITCHKOSKY AND KATIE AUBRECHT
12 Madness in the Media: An Intersectional Analysis of Educational Films and Television Programming, 1940-1969
WENDY CHAN AND DOROTHY E. CHUNN
Part Five: Refashioning Research for Social Justice Praxis
13 Ethics, Research and Advocacy: The Experiences of the NAOMI Patients Association in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver
SUSAN BOYD, DAVE MURRAY & NAOMI PATIENTS ASSOCIATION 2013
14 Using Art-based Methods to Create Research Spaces that Encourage Meaningful Dialogue about Gender, Social Inequity, Recovery and Mental Illness
INDRANI MARGOLIN, TERRY KRUPA, SEAN KIDD, DARRELL BURNHAM, DAWN HEMINGWAY, MICHELLE PATTERSON & DENISE ZABKIEWICZ
15 Disrupting Dominant Discourses: Rethinking Services and Systems for Women with Experiences of Abuse
LOUISE GODARD, VIVIANE JOSEWSKI, JILL CORY, ALEXXA ABI-JAOUDE, LORRAINE HALINKA MALCOE & VICTORIA SMYE
16 An Intersectionality Approach to Resilience Research: Centring Structural Analysis, Resistance and Social Justice
SARAH CHOWN AND LORRAINE HALINKA MALCOE
