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The struggle for the social: rejecting the false separation of 'social' worlds in mental health spaces

Burgess, Rochelle A; (2023) The struggle for the social: rejecting the false separation of 'social' worlds in mental health spaces. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 10.1007/s00127-023-02510-3. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

How are we to best grapple with the notion of the Social in mental health landscapes? This piece of speculative work explores a series of tensions that emerge in our attempt to contemplate, engage with, and address the social in mental health spaces. First, I will explore the tensions created by disciplinary demands for specialisation, questioning the value of this with regard to treating social and emotional bodies which continually reject such fragmentation. This line of inquiry then leads to reflection on the value of a social topology-enabled through the application of intersectionality principles, Black Sociological analytical frameworks, including the worldview approach, and societal psychological perspectives on knowledge and action. I argue the possibilities in actioning these approaches emerge through the application of a social-political economy of mental health, that holds the complexity presented by the totality of social life as it potentially relates to mental health. The piece seeks to advance a space of thinking on how we transition global mental health projects to be more effectively situated in a needed commitment for social justice as a remedy and repair to broken social worlds.

Type: Article
Title: The struggle for the social: rejecting the false separation of 'social' worlds in mental health spaces
Location: Germany
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-023-02510-3
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-023-02510-3
Language: English
Additional information: © 2023 Springer Nature. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: Intersectionality, Knowledge practices, Social world, Socio-political economy
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10173210
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