{"product_id":"9783031828607","title":"The Politics of Mental Health and Illness: Social and Historical Perspectives","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThe Politics of Mental Health and Illness: Social and Historical Perspectives\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eHendry, Natalie Ann; Karageorgos, Effie\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis interdisciplinary volume examines the social production of mental health and illness in Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand). It draws together cutting-edge critical mental health scholarship from the region, to interrogate how personal, community, institutional and mediated relations, make and remake experiences of ‘mental health.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the wake of the widespread insertion of psy-considerations into everyday lives, here contributors demonstrate how the relations between communities, practices, professionals and institutions often replicate long-standing histories of discrimination and violence motivated by psychiatric classification, even as the psy-disciplines move into supposedly more transformational domains: digital technology, schooling, human resources, and social media, for example.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book’s chapters reflect the current diversity within academic studies of mental health and illness in Australia and Aotearoa. This includes a wide range of case studies from war trauma in the Australian military and pornography addiction, to the depathologisation of trans health and peer workers in mental health services.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCritical Mental Health in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand\u003c\/em\u003e offers unique insights particular to the region, to students and scholars of critical psychology, history, sociology, medical humanities, and education.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2025-04-25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783031828607\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-031-82861-4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 303\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44477716791436,"sku":"9783031828607","price":152.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783031828607_5e749815-d8ad-4612-a3a1-2aec727ab1c9.jpg?v=1777385502","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783031828607","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}