Collaborative Ethnographic Working in Mental Health seeks to chart a new direction for research into mental healthcare, with the aim of creating the conditions for more productive interdisciplinary dialogue.
People involved in mental health often fail to recognise how they are described by researchers from the humanities and social sciences, which inhibits productive collaboration. This book seeks to address this problem, by including clinicians and patients in the research process and by shifting attention away from power and knowledge and towards the organisational context. It explores how clinical thinking and behaviour, illness experience, and clinical relationships are all shaped by the bureaucratic context. In particular, it examines tensions between what we want from mental healthcare and how accountable bureaucracies actually work, and proposes that mental healthcare research should not just evaluate new interventions but should investigate new ways of organising.
This book is written with a non-specialist audience in mind, as it is intended for all with a stake in mental healthcare research and practice. It is also for those with an interest in ethnographic methods, as a novel way of deploying ethnography, autoethnography and coproduced ethnography to address clinically important research topics.
Author(s): Neil Armstrong
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2024
Language: English
Pages: viii; 180
City: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY
Tags: Mental Health Research; Ethnography and Autoethnography; Ethnography & Methodology; Mental Health; Behavioral Sciences; Psychiatry & Clinical Psychology - Adult; Qualitative Methods; Research Methods; Anthropology; Social Sciences; Ethics & Legal issues in Mental Health; Diagnostic Practice & Assessment
Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of contents
Acknowledgements viii
1. Everybody Knows About Mental Health 1
2. What Does it Mean to Know About Mental Healthcare? 21
3. No Mental Healthcare Without Mental Healthcare Institutions 41
4. Bipolar: The Beautiful Opponent 60
5. Learning to be Ill, Learning to be Well 82
6. Untethered 108
7. Us and Them: Why Nobody Wins 131
Conclusion 155
Bibliography 168
Index 175