Mental Health and Otherness

Mental Health and Otherness

Intersections between Gender, Race, Class and Age

Mountian, Ilana

Taylor & Francis Ltd

12/2024

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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 Disorders2.1. 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 Brazil3.1. Immigration Processes and Mental Health in the UK
3.2. Asylum Seeker and Refugee Access to Health Services and Mental Health Issues3.3. Immigration and Health Services in Brazil: Gender, Race and Mental Health3.4. 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
mental health;health;psychiatry;clinical practice;intersectionality;UK;Brazil;psychology;sociology;cultural studies;travestis;transgender;gender;drug use;inequality;othering;other;immigrants;refugees;asylum seekers