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Critical Inquiries for Social Justice in Mental Health

Edited by Marina Morrow and Lorraine Halinka Malcoe

© 2017

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.

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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.

Critical Inquiries for Social Justice in Mental Health

Edited by Marina Morrow and Lorraine Halinka Malcoe

© 2017

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.

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Product Details

  • World Rights
  • Page Count: 520 pages
  • Dimensions: 6.0in x 1.0in x 9.0in

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    "Critical Inquiries for Social Justice in Mental Health is a valuable ‘why’ and ‘how’ guide to conducting research with people who have been marginalized in various ways, notably due to class, ethnicity, race, gender, psychiatric diagnosis, and sexual orientation. It has a broad appeal and is ideally suited for usage in social work, nursing, and just about any course in methods in the arts and humanities."


    Geoffrey Reaume, Critical Disability Studies Program and School of Health Policy and Management, York University

  • Author Information

    Marina Morrow is a professor and Chair of the School of Health Policy and Management at York University.


    Lorraine Halinka Malcoe is an associate professor of social epidemiology in the Joseph J Zilber School of Public Health at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University

  • Table of 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

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