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Mental Health and Otherness

Intersections between Gender, Race, Class and Age
 
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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.

Long description:

Based on two decades of research in Brazil and the UK, this book explores the ways in which intersections of gender, race and class affect the positioning of the subject as 'Other' in discourses of health, and how the positioning of the subject as 'Other' has implications for health research and mental health practice.


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.


This book is a study of the discursive construction of ideas about health and mental health in the West and the awareness of processes of othering in clinical practice. It will appeal to scholars in psychology, sociology and cultural studies with an interest in mental health, health care and intersectionality.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: On Othering Processes


Part 1: From Theory: Laying Foundations


1. Framing the Other
1.1. (Re)producing 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. Mental Health Classifications and Othering Processes: On Addiction, Depression and Sexual Disorders
2.1. Women and Mental Health: Depression and Hysteria
2.2. Immigration, Race and Mental Health: Diagnosis and Prescription
2.3. Transsexuality and Homosexuality: The Body and the Diagnosis
2.4. The Production of Drug Addiction and Minoritized Groups 


Part 2: To Practice: Researching Mental Health


3. Immigration, Gender and Mental Health in England and Brazil
3.1. Immigration Processes and Mental Health in the UK
3.2. Asylum Seeker and Refugee Access to Health Services and Mental Health Issues
3.3. Immigration and Health Services in Brazil: Gender, Race and Mental Health
3.4. Reflections on the Encounter: Decolonising Mental Health 


4. Mental Health and Sexuality: Reflections on Older Travestis and Trans Women in Brazil
4.1. Contextualising Travestis and Trans People 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: Decolonising mental health


Appendix 1: Main Research Projects Cited
Appendix 2: List of Community Organisations Assisting the Research Health Experiences of Access to Health 


Bibliography