Making mental health : a global history / Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen.

9780429351464 (ebook)
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9781040103166 (electronic bk. : PDF)
1040103162 (electronic bk. : PDF)
9781040103203 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.

English

1 online resource.

10.4324/9780429351464 doi

RA790

(OCoLC)1441721576

"Making Mental Health: A Critical History historicizes mental health by examining the concept from the 'madness' of the late 19th century to the changing ideas about its contemporary concerns and status. It argues that a critical approach to the history of psychiatry and mental health shows them to constitute a dual clinical-political project that gathered pace over the course of the twentieth century and continues to resonate in the present. Drawing on scholarship across several areas of historical inquiry as well as historical and contemporary clinical literature, the book uses a thematic approach to highlight decisive moments that demonstrate the stakes of this engagement in Anglo-American contexts. By tracing the (unfinished) history of institutions, the search for cures for psychiatric distress, the growing interest of the nation-state in mental health, the history of attempts to globalise psychiatry, the controversies over the politics of diagnostic categories that erupted in the 1960s and 1970s, and the history of theorising about the relationship between the psyche and the market, the book offers a comprehensive account of the evolution of mental health into a commonplace concern. Addressing key questions in the fields of history, medical humanities, and the social sciences, as well as in the psychiatry and related disciplines themselves, the book is an essential contribution to an ongoing conversation about mental distress and its meanings"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her research examines the history of psychiatry and medicine as well as the history of warfare. Between 2016 and 2021 she was an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow in the university's Centre for the Study of Violence.

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Print version: Roberts-Pedersen, Elizabeth. Making mental health Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025

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