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An exceptional showcase of interdisciplinary research, Critical Inquiries for Social Justice in Mental Health presents various critical theories, methodologies, and methods for transforming mental health research and fostering socially-just mental health practices. Marina Morrow and Lorraine Halinka Malcoe have assembled an array of international scholars, activists, and practitioners whose work exposes and disrupts the dominant neoliberal and individualist practices found in contemporary mental research, policy, and practice. The contributors employ a variety of methodologies including intersectional, decolonizing, indigenous, feminist, post-structural, transgender, queer, and critical realist approaches in order to interrogate the manifestation of power relations in mental health systems and its impact on people with mental distress. Additionally, the contributors enable the reader to reimagine systems and supports designed from the bottom up, in which the people most affected have decision-making authority over their formations.
Critical Inquiries for Social Justice in Mental Health demonstrates why and how theory matters for knowledge production, policy, and practice in mental health, and it creates new imaginings of decolonized and democratized mental health systems, of abundant community-centred supports, and of a world where human differences are affirmed.

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Preface Introduction: Science, Social (In)Justice and Mental Health LORRAINE HALINKA MALCOE AND MARINA MORROW Part One: Foregrounding Social Justice Theorizing 1 "Women and Madness" Revisited: The Promise of Intersectional & Mad Studies Frameworks MARINA MORROW 2 A 'Third Space' for Doing Social Justice Research VIVIANE JOSEWSKI 3 Global Psychiatrization and Psychic Colonization: The Coloniality of Global Mental Health CHINA MILLS Part Two: Decolonizing Research and Practice 4 Mental Health in Africa: Human Rights Approaches to Decolonization MOHAMED IBRAHIM 5 Dancing with Complexity: Decolonization and Social Justice Dialogues RUBY PETERSON AND SABINA CHATTERJEE 6 Melq'ilwiye: Coming Together: Intersections of Identity, Sovereignty and Mental Health for Urban Indigenous Youth NATALIE CLARK, PATRICK WALTON, JULIE DROLET, TARA TRIBUTE, GEORGIA JULES, TALICIA MAIN & MIKE ARNOUSE Part Three: Gender(ing), Discourse and Power 7 Is It Normal or PMS? Women's Strategies Negotiating and Resisting Negative Premenstrual Change JANE M. USSHER AND JANETTE PERZ 8 Depression in Workplaces: Governmentality, Feminist Analysis and Neoliberalism KATHERINE TEGHTSOONIAN 9 Gender Nonconformity or Psychiatric Noncompliance? How Organized Noncompliance Can Offer a Future without Psychiatry JEMMA TOSH Part Four: Media as a Site of Social (In)Justice 10 (De)Pathologization: Transsexuality, Gynecomastia and the Negotiation of Mental Health Diagnoses in Online Communities T. GARNER 11 "One in Five": The Prevalence Problematic in Mental Illness Discourse TANYA TITCHKOSKY AND KATIE AUBRECHT 12 Madness in the Media: An Intersectional Analysis of Educational Films and Television Programming, 1940-1969 WENDY CHAN AND DOROTHY E. CHUNN Part Five: Refashioning Research for Social Justice Praxis 13 Ethics, Research and Advocacy: The Experiences of the NAOMI Patients Association in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver SUSAN BOYD, DAVE MURRAY & NAOMI PATIENTS ASSOCIATION 2013 14 Using Art-based Methods to Create Research Spaces that Encourage Meaningful Dialogue about Gender, Social Inequity, Recovery and Mental Illness INDRANI MARGOLIN, TERRY KRUPA, SEAN KIDD, DARRELL BURNHAM, DAWN HEMINGWAY, MICHELLE PATTERSON & DENISE ZABKIEWICZ 15 Disrupting Dominant Discourses: Rethinking Services and Systems for Women with Experiences of Abuse LOUISE GODARD, VIVIANE JOSEWSKI, JILL CORY, ALEXXA ABI-JAOUDE, LORRAINE HALINKA MALCOE & VICTORIA SMYE 16 An Intersectionality Approach to Resilience Research: Centring Structural Analysis, Resistance and Social Justice SARAH CHOWN AND LORRAINE HALINKA MALCOE