Mental Health and Otherness - Intersections Between Gender, Race, Class and Age

Drawing on feminist, postcolonial and decolonial studies, psychoanalysis and discourse analysis, Mental Health and Otherness examines the experiences of immigrants, drug users and transsexual people in health and mental health settings, and the ways in which stereotypical understandings can affect the subject.

List of contents

Introduction: on othering processes

1. Framing the Other
1.2. Fetishised relations
1.3. Celebrating difference: on otherness and sameness
1.4. Working with intersections
1.5. Encountering the Other
2.1. Women and mental health: on depression and hysteria
2.2. Immigration, race and mental health: diagnosis and prescription
2.4. The production of drug addiction and minoritised groups
Part 2: To practice: researching mental health
3.1. Immigration processes and mental health in the UK
3.4. Reflections on the Encounter: Decolonising Mental Health
4. Mental health and sexuality: reflections on older travestis and transwomen in Brazil
4.2. Travestis, transgender, transsexual women and ageing
4.3. Revisiting history: military Dictatorship, AIDS and immigration
5. Discourses on drug addiction and gender
5.1. Social imaginary of the drug addict
5.2. Social imaginary of women and drugs in Brazil
5.3. Drug policy, gender, sexuality and race
Conclusions: d
Appendix 1: main research projects cited
Appendix 2: list of community organisations assisting the research health experiences of access to health

About the author

Ilana Mountian is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of the West of England. Member of the School of Psychoanalysis of the Forum of the Lacanian Field and the Discourse Unit. Author of Cultural Ecstasies: Drugs, Gender and the Social Imaginary (Routledge, 2013).

Summary

Drawing on feminist, postcolonial and decolonial studies, psychoanalysis and discourse analysis, Mental Health and Otherness examines the experiences of immigrants, drug users and transsexual people in health and mental health settings, and the ways in which stereotypical understandings can affect the subject.

Product details

• Authors: Ilana Mountian, Mountian Ilana
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.12.2024
• EAN: 9780367207663
• ISBN: 978-0-367-20766-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Therapeutic Cultures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Psychiatry, Drug & substance abuse: social aspects, Migration, immigration & emigration, Health psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Migration, immigration and emigration, Gender studies, gender groups, Medical Sociology, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity