China Mills

Decolonizing Global Mental Health

The psychiatrization of the majority world

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a critical post-colonial reading of the newly emerging arena of global mental health; with particular focus on psychology's and psychiatry's encounters with distress or 'mental illness' in low-income countries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9781848721593
• ISBN-10: 1848721595
• Artikelnr.: 37792768

Autorenporträt

China Mills is a researcher at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford. Her research interests span interdisciplinary approaches to exploring the interconnections between Global Mental Health, psychiatry, the pharmaceutical industry and colonialism.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction De-familiarising GMH: a methodology of Encounters 1. Making
Mental Health a Reality for All 2. 'Harvesting Despair' -Suicide Notes to
the State and Psychotropics in the post 3. Educating, Marketing, Mongering
4. The Turn / The Look: Interpellating the Mad Colonial Subject 5.
'Necessary evils': When torture is treatment and violence is normal 6. Sly
Normality: Between Quiescence and Revolt 7. Decolonising Global Mental
Health

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Introduction De-familiarising GMH: a methodology of Encounters 1. Making Mental Health a Reality for All 2. 'Harvesting Despair' -Suicide Notes to the State and Psychotropics in the post 3. Educating, Marketing, Mongering 4. The Turn / The Look: Interpellating the Mad Colonial Subject 5. 'Necessary evils': When torture is treatment and violence is normal 6. Sly Normality: Between Quiescence and Revolt 7. Decolonising Global Mental Health