Containing Madness
Gender and ‘Psy’ in Institutional Contexts
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Beschreibung
This collection explores the discursive production and treatment of mental distress as it is mediated by gender and race in different institutional contexts. Featuring analyses of the prison, the psychiatric hospital, immigration detention, and other locales, this book explores the multiple interlocking oppressions that result in the diagnosis and medical, psychological, and psychiatric treatment of individuals constituted as ‘mentally ill’ at various historical moments and across institutional spaces. Contributors unpack how feminine, masculine, and transgender bodies are made up as mentally ill/sick/deviant by way of biomedical and institutional knowledges and discourses and are intervened upon by different institutional and expert authorities.
This collection explores the discursive production and treatment of mental distress as it is mediated by gender and race in different institutional contexts. Featuring analyses of the prison, the psychiatric hospital, immigration detention, and other locales, this book explores the multiple interlocking oppressions that result in the diagnosis and medical, psychological, and psychiatric treatment of individuals constituted as ‘mentally ill’ at various historical moments and across institutional spaces. Contributors unpack how feminine, masculine, and transgender bodies are made up as mentally ill/sick/deviant by way of biomedical and institutional knowledges and discourses and are intervened upon by different institutional and expert authorities.
Explores how multiple factors affect the wellbeing of patients in institutions Addresses how to improve the treatment of patients Examines case studies concerning institutional abuses in Canada and beyond
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Jennifer M. Kilty
Themen in »Containing Madness«
Critical Mental Health Critical Psychology Critical Psychiatry Women’s Studies Gender Studies Feminist Studies Mental Illness Crime Legal Studies Imprisonment Psy care in prison Healthcare in prison Criminalization Prison Punishment