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This interdisciplinary volume examines the social production of mental health and illness in Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand). It draws together cutting-edge critical mental health scholarship from the region, to interrogate how personal, community, institutional and mediated relations, make and remake experiences of 'mental health.'
In the wake of the widespread insertion of psy-considerations into everyday lives, here contributors demonstrate how the relations between communities, practices, professionals and institutions often replicate long-standing histories of discrimination and violence motivated by psychiatric classification, even as the psy-disciplines move into supposedly more transformational domains: digital technology, schooling, human resources, and social media, for example.
The book's chapters reflect the current diversity within academic studies of mental health and illness in Australia and Aotearoa. This includes a wide range of case studies from war trauma in the Australian military and pornography addiction, to the depathologisation of trans health and peer workers in mental health services.
Critical Mental Health in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand offers unique insights particular to the region, to students and scholars of critical psychology, history, sociology, medical humanities, and education.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Remaking experiences and knowledges through critical mental health research in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand Natalie Ann Hendry, Effie Karageorgos.- Part One: Contesting Psy-Knowledges in Institutional Spaces.- Chapter 2: Locating the moral genealogy of war trauma in the Australian Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide Effie Karageorgos.- Chapter 3: Psy-knowledges in the academy: Making space for critique - Emma Tseris.- Chapter 4: Educating emotions for well-being in Aotearoa New Zealand - Roberto McLeay.- Part Two: Empowering C/S/X in Research and Praxis.- Chapter 5: Co-producing histories of Australian community mental health, 1970-1990 - The Re; Minding Histories Research Group.- Chapter 6: Caring Madly/Madly caring - Aimee Sinclair.- Chapter 7: T nei te p nau mai te ao: Activating Indigenous system change Diana Kopua, Mark Kopua, Michelle Levy.- Part Three Self-Surveillance, Contagion and Pathologization.- Chapter 8: Digitalising the vagus nerve: Critical mental health and the total body - Jacinthe Flore.- Chapter 9: Is it real? Making and unmaking pornography addiction - Kris Taylor.- Chapter 10: Contesting progress narratives of depathologisation in trans health Rebecca Howe.- Chapter 11: Social media contagion, digital self-diagnosis and youth mental health Natalie Ann Hendry.- Chapter 12: Epilogue Bruce M.Z. Cohen.
