Ilana Mountian

Mental Health and Otherness

Intersections between Gender, Race, Class and Age

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9780367207663
• ISBN-10: 0367207664
• Artikelnr.: 71720304

Autorenporträt

(Routledge, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: On Othering Processes
1. Framing the Other
1.2. Fetishised Relationships
1.3. Celebrating Difference: On Otherness and Sameness
1.4. Working with Intersections
1.5. Encountering the Other
2.1. Women and Mental Health: Depression and Hysteria
2.2. Immigration, Race and Mental Health: Diagnosis and Prescription
2.4. The Production of Drug Addiction and Minoritized 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 Trans
Women in Brazil
4.2. Travestis, Transgender, Transsexual Women and Ageing
4.3. Revisiting History: The 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:
Appendix 1: Main Research Projects Cited
Appendix 2: List of Community Organisations Assisting the Research Health
Experiences of Access to Health
Bibliography