Subjectivity and Critical Mental Health

Lessons from Brazil

Daniel Goulart

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Routledge
25 February 2019

Psychology; Mental health services; Psychiatry; Clinical psychology

Series: Concepts for Critical Psychology

Subjectivity and Critical Mental Health: Lessons from Brazil presents and discusses subjectivity as a key concept to challenge the individualized and reified perspective that psychology and mental health studies have traditionally sustained. Situated against the maintenance of hierarchical, unilateral and objectifying relations within mental health, this book is a timely and necessary critical intervention.

Drawing on González Rey’s cultural-historical theory of subjectivity, the author constructs points of convergence with critical social psychology, as well as with some critiques from traditional psychiatry based on antipsychiatry. Using empirical findings from original research undertaken in Brazilian community mental health services, a complex articulation between mental health, education and subjective development is proposed by emphasizing a unified research/professional practice, based on an ethics of the subject. Ending by examining possible alternatives for critical mental health that engage with culture and society, the book sets the stage for further re-thinking of research and practice within the critical mental health field.

Accessibly written, the interdisciplinary nature of the text should also make this book fascinating reading for students and academics interested in critical psychology, post-colonial studies, mental health and education alike.

By: Daniel Goulart
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 180g
ISBN: 9780815369615
ISBN 10: 0815369611
Series: Concepts for Critical Psychology
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 25 February 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword 1. Introduction 2. Deinstitutionalization and mental health 3. Subjectivity as a transverse concept 4. Subjective sense and subjective configuration: conceptual devices to foster new articulations within the mental health field 5. The subject and the agent beyond idealization 6. Subjective development and ethics of the subject: crucial challenges for critical mental health care 7. Final remarks Bibliography Index

Daniel Magalhães Goulart is associate professor at the Faculty of Education and Health Sciences of the University Centre of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil. His research interests focus on critical psychology and education from the cultural-historical approach of subjectivity in the fields of: 1) critical mental health care; 2) subjective development and education; 3) strategies beyond the pathologization of life.