Beyond Clinical Dehumanisation toward the Other in Community Mental Health Care

Levinas, Wonder and Autoethnography
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-51194-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Psychology and the Other

Beyond Clinical Dehumanisation Toward the Other in Community Mental Health Care offers a rare and intimate portrayal of the moral process of a mental health clinician that interrogates the intractable problem of systemic dehumanisation in community mental health care and looks to the notion of "wonder" and the visionary relational ethics of Emmanuel Levinas for a possible cure.

An interdisciplinary study with transdisciplinary aspirations, this book contributes an original and compelling voice to the emerging therapeutic conversation attempting to re-imagine and transcend the objectifying constraints of the dominant discourse and the reductive world view that drives it. Chapters bring into dialogue the fields of community mental health care, psychology, psychology and the Other, the philosophy of wonder, Levinasian ethics, clinical ethics, the moral research of autoethnography and the medical humanities, to consider the defilement of the vulnerable help seeker, the moral injury of the clinician and look for answers beyond.

This book is an ethical primer for mental health professionals, researchers, educators, advocates and service users working to re-imagine and heal a broken system by challenging the underpinnings of entrenched dehumanisation and standing with those they "serve".

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Racine, Catherine A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie Kulturpsychologie, Ethnopsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Chapter 1. James’ Story; Chapter 2. Three Opponents of Wonder; Chapter 3. From Behind the Mask: Writing Autoethnography; Chapter 4. Wonder: A Turn Towards the Divine; Chapter 5. Levinas and the Wholly/Holy Other; Chapter 6. Clinical Application and Beyond: The Function of the Holy; Chapter 7. The Politics of Need and Desire

Über Autor(innen)

Catherine A. Racine, is an independent Canadian scholar, feminist, ethicist and writer. She completed her PhD at Durham University in England in 2017.