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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Critical Perspectives on Mental Health

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  • © 2020

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Editors:
  1. Jessica Nina Lester

    1. Counseling & Educational Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

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  2. Michelle O'Reilly

    1. The Greenwood Institute, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

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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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Table of contents (63 entries)

  1. Gun Violence

    • Dawn Myers, Tasja Müller, Sonali Rajan

  2. Indigeneity: Critical Implications of Indigenous Identity on Indigenous Child and Youth Mental Health

    • Shanna Peltier, Jeffrey Ansloos

  3. Indigenous Critical Perspectives on Mental Health

    • Lewis Mehl-Madrona, Patrick McFarlane

  4. Intersex Youth: A Call for Dignity in Mental Health Care

    • Courtney Skaggs, Sean Saifa Wall

  5. Logopenic Variant Primary Progressive Aphasia

    • Lu Song

  6. Making Up Clients: Critically Considering the Institutional Construction of Clienthood and Social Organization of Recovery

    • Emily M. Doyle

  7. Medicalization of Grief: Its Developments and Paradoxes

    • Kaori Wada

  8. Mental Health in Schools

    • Cindy Y. Huang, Silvia A. Nishioka, Emily Hunt, Sylvia H. M. Wong, Cindy J. Huang

  9. Mental Health Interventions for the Elderly

    • Lisa Mikesell

  10. Mental Illness: Somatization

    • Norann Richard

  11. Models of Psychotherapy in Mental Health

    • Tom Strong

  12. Movement and Migration

    • Gabrielle Oliveira, Mariana Lima Becker

  13. Nature in Mental Health Recovery Processes

    • Lise Katrine Jepsen Trangsrud

  14. Negotiating Diagnostic Talk in Psychotherapy

    • Evrinomy Avdi

  15. Neoliberalism

    • Jeremy Benson, Debbie Sonu

  16. Neurocognitive Disorder: Alzheimer’s Disease

    • Boyd H. Davis, Margaret Maclagan

  17. Normal Cognitive Aging

    • Matthew C. Shake, C. Deven Blake

  18. Personhood in Living with Dementia

    • Lars-Christer Hydén

  19. Play and Mental Health

    • Karen Wohlwend, Jennifer Parker Monger, Yanlin Chen

  20. Popular Culture as Sites of Belonging and Healing

    • Haeny Yoon, Lalitha Vasudevan
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Counseling & Educational Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

    Jessica Nina Lester

  • The Greenwood Institute, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

    Michelle O'Reilly

About the editors

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

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