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- Offers a unique, critically-oriented overview of mental health and illness
- Represents established and current debates in the context of a continuing critical perspectives movement in psychiatry and mental health
- Brings together a wide range of concepts across psychology, psychiatry, sociology, education and medicine
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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Critical Perspectives on Mental Health assembles a global cast of experts to present critical perspectives on the broad, interdisciplinary field of mental health. Engaging with critical and constructionist conceptions of mental health, it offers a contemporary assessment of mental health as a field, and of prevailing approaches to mental health ‘disorders’ and illnesses. The authors present a comprehensive assessment of mental health today while applying the core hypothesis that the very conception of mental health is made possible in and through language use.
Including nine sections traversing the landscape of mental health in critically informed ways, this book brings together a wide range of concepts across psychology, psychiatry, sociology, education and medicine. In a context of a rapidly growing critical perspectives movement in psychiatry and mental health, this book offers a unique and timely resource for anyone interested in critically oriented theories of mental health.
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Jessica Nina Lester is Associate Professor of Inquiry Methodology in the School of Education at Indiana University, Bloomington. Dr. Lester has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, as well as numerous books and book chapters focused on discourse and conversation analysis, disability studies, and more general concerns related to qualitative research.
Michelle O’Reilly is Associate Professor at the University of Leicester, UK. Michelle’s research interests are in the areas of child mental health, sociology of health and illness, family therapy and qualitative methods; and she has published many papers and books in this area.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Critical Perspectives on Mental Health
Editors: Jessica Nina Lester, Michelle O'Reilly
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12852-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Springer Reference Behavioral Science and Psychology, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-12852-4Due: 12 February 2024
Topics: Critical Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Clinical Psychology, Critical Theory, Psychiatry