Troubled Persons Industries -

Troubled Persons Industries

The Expansion of Psychiatric Categories beyond Psychiatry

Martin Harbusch (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
XVII, 345 Seiten
2022 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-83744-0 (ISBN)
149,79 inkl. MwSt
This book critiques the use of psychiatric labelling and psychiatric narratives in everyday areas of institutional and social life across the globe. It engages an interpretive sociology, emphasising the medial and individual everyday practices of medicalisation, and their role in establishing and diffusing conceptions of mental (ab)normality. 

The reconstruction of psychiatric narratives is currently taking place in multiple contexts, many of which are no longer strictly psychiatric. On the one hand, psychiatric narratives now pervade contemporary public discourses and institutions though advertising, news and internet sites. On the other hand, professionals like social workers, teachers, counsellors, disability advisors, lawyers, nurses and/or health insurance staff dealing with psychiatric narratives are becoming servants of the psychiatric discourse within "troubled person's industries". Abstract academic categories get turned into concrete aggrieved victims of these categorisations and academic formulas turned into individual narratives. To receive support it seems, one must be labelled. 

The practice-oriented micro-sociological field with which this volume is concerned has only recently begun to integrate itself into public and academic debates regarding medicalisation and the social role of psychiatry. Discussions on the evolution and expansion of official diagnoses within academia, and society in general, frequently overlook the individualised roles of psychiatric diagnoses and the experiences of those involved and affected by these processes, an oversight which this volume seeks to both highlight and address. 


Martin Harbusch works in postdoctoral positions at the University of Kassel and at the University of Hagen in Germany. His teaching and research address the sociology of mental health, with a specific focus on the use of categories of mental health and illness in contexts of social work. He also teaches "Qualitative Methods" at the University of Hanover and at the University of Lüneburg, Germany.

Chapter 1. Introduction; Martin Harbusch & Alison Fixsen.- Chapter 2. "Psychiatrisation" of school children: Secondary school teachers' beliefs and practices on mental health and illness; Sami Timimi & Zoe Timimi.- Chapter 3.  Governing emotions in schools; Roberto Mcleay and Darren Powell.- Chapter 4. The ADHD "Industry": The psychiatrisation of the school system in its labour market context; Charles Marley   David Fryer.- Chapter 4. The ADHD "Industry": The psychiatrisation of the school system in its labour market context; Charles Marley   David Fryer.- Chapter 6. Psychiatric expansion and the rise of workplace mental health initiatives; Bruce M.S. Cohen.- Chapter 7. Dramas of medicalisation in everyday social network life; Martin Harbusch & Michael Dellwing.- Chapter 7. Dramas of medicalisation in everyday social network life; Martin Harbusch & Michael Dellwing.- Chapter 9. The psychiatric surveillance of pregnant women and new mothers.- Emma Tseris.- Chapter 10. Experience, morality and accountability: Shaping the landscape of "sex addiction" through lived experience and professional knowledge; Emmanuelle Larocque, Baptiste Brossard & Dahlia Namian.- Chapter 11. Psychiatric categories and technologies behind the wire: Case notes from the north of Ireland; Ruari Santiago-McBride.- Chapter 12. A harmless sort of trouble: Community policing in rural areas and the narrative construction of "troubled" and "troublesome" individuals;  Aaron Bielejewski.- Chapter 13. Cannabis: Creating troubled persons ... and treating them?; Michelle Newhart & William Dolphin.- Chapter 14.  New markets in deviance, professional power and practice in post-institutional Ireland; Damien Brennan.- Chapter 15. The cultural construction of diagnostic categories in psychiatric training and practice in New Zealand; Charles Nuckolls.- Chapter 16. "I was so relieved when the doctor told me I had schizophrenia" - Identity and sense-making of psychiatric labels; Stefan Sjöström.- Chapter 17. Conclusions.

"The book provides (possibly by accident) radical commentary on emergent forms of medico-industrial-state relations as well ... . Indeed, it was the ability to give it such a reading that had the most effect on this reader and fully exposed the book's value. Thus, though I recommend it to anyone interested in psychiatric hegemony ... I also recommend it to every sociologist ... . I found its observations and its implications traveled well beyond the parameters of psychiatrization ... stunning." (Robert Wade Kenny, Symbolic Interaction, February 2, 2023)

“The book provides (possibly by accident) radical commentary on emergent forms of medico-industrial-state relations as well … . Indeed, it was the ability to give it such a reading that had the most effect on this reader and fully exposed the book’s value. Thus, though I recommend it to anyone interested in psychiatric hegemony … I also recommend it to every sociologist … . I found its observations and its implications traveled well beyond the parameters of psychiatrization … stunning.” (Robert Wade Kenny, Symbolic Interaction, February 2, 2023)

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo XVII, 345 p.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 601 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie
Schlagworte DSM • Interpretive Sociology • Medicalisation • Mental health and illness • Non-Psychiatric-Disciplines • psychiatric categories • Psychiatric Diagnosis • Psychiatric narratives • Psychiatry • Social Construction of Health • Sociology of Psychiatry
ISBN-10 3-030-83744-0 / 3030837440
ISBN-13 978-3-030-83744-0 / 9783030837440
Zustand Neuware
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