Psychiatrization in mental health care: The emergency department [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2022 BackgroundIn the light of high incidences of diagnosed mental disorders and the growing utilization of mental healthcare services, a progressing psychiatrization of society has been hypothesized as the underlying dynamic of these developments.
Timo Beeker
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Psychiatrization of Resistance: The Co-option of Consumer, Survivor, and Ex-patient Movements in the Global South [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2022 This article examines contemporary examples of psychiatrization as a tool of disciplinary control and repression, focusing on new research on the co-option of consumer/survivor/ex-patient movements within the Global South.
Jenny Logan, Justin M. Karter
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Concept Creep and Psychiatrization [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2021 Some aspects of psychiatrization can be understood as forms of concept creep, the progressive expansion of concepts of harm. This article compares the two concepts and explores how concept creep sheds light on psychiatrization.
Nick Haslam +2 more
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Psychiatrization of adoption practices in contemporary Poland [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2022 In this article, I propose to take a closer look at the practices of kinning in the context of adoption in contemporary Poland. I am interested in the social production of this ‘unfamiliar kind of kinship' and the positions of various actors involved in ...
Anna Witeska-Młynarczyk
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Psychiatrization of Society: A Conceptual Framework and Call for Transdisciplinary Research [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 Purpose: Worldwide, there have been consistently high or even rising incidences of diagnosed mental disorders and increasing mental healthcare service utilization over the last decades, causing a growing burden for healthcare systems and societies. While
Timo Beeker +6 more
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Psychiatrization, assertions of epistemic justice, and the question of agency [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2023 Thus far, the concept of epistemic injustice in the context of psychiatry has been discussed more widely by clinical academics than by authors with personal experience of psychiatrization. It is from the latter perspective that I critique the practice of
Jasna Russo
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Dialogue as a Response to the Psychiatrization of Society? Potentials of the Open Dialogue Approach [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2021 In recent decades, the use of psychosocial and psychiatric care systems has increased worldwide. A recent article proposed the concept of psychiatrization as an explanatory framework, describing multiple processes responsible for the spread of ...
Sebastian von Peter +8 more
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Not in Their Right Mind? Right-Wing Extremism Is Not a Mental Illness, but Still a Challenge for Psychiatry [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2022 Most research in psychiatry on extremism focuses on the question whether there is a connection between extremism and psychiatric diagnoses. In addition, practitioners are increasingly asked to take part in programs aimed at preventing and countering ...
Frank Schumann +2 more
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The Lost Social Context of Recovery Psychiatrization of a Social Process [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2022 From being a concept questioning the core of psychiatric knowledge and practice, recovery has been adopted as a guiding vison for mental health policy and practice by different local, national, and international organizations.
Alain Topor +3 more
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Who decides on time? Mad Time as a disruptor of normative research politics and practices [PDF]
Frontiers in SociologyThere is an increasing recognition of the epistemic injustice perpetrated against individuals deemed mad, leading to a push for the inclusion of their voices in research and academia.
Aimee Sinclair
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