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Call for papers, edited book:
The entanglement of culture and psychosis: a collage of perspectives
Edited by:
Ingo Lambrecht, Manawanui, Mâori Mental Health Services, NZ
Anna Lavis, University of Birmingham, UK
Cross-disciplinary explorations of mental health have offered nuanced understandings of lived experiences of psychosis and its treatment across a range of geographical, social, and political contexts. Recognition of these experiences as culturally patterned has been accompanied by an attention to marginalisation, inequalities and stigma, and the impact of these on healing and recovery. Yet, although these existing strands of thought have all acknowledged the complex relationship between culture and psychosis, to date there are no books focused on exploring this relationship or its real-world impact.
Recognising both ‘culture’ and ‘psychosis’ as contested terms, and that the relationships between them may be multi-directional, the editors of this volume are interested in soliciting academic research chapters that explore how each may shape experiences of the other. We suggest that an attention to culture offers a novel critical lens onto otherwise obscured aspects of psychosis, and that experiences of illness and treatment cast light on the workings of culture both within and outside biomedicine/psychiatry.
We seek chapters from scholars within anthropology and sociology; philosophy; medical humanities; critical and cultural theory; psychiatry; psychology; public health; history; literary studies, as well as from a range of practitioners working with people experiencing psychosis.
Topics may include, but are not restricted to, the following:
• Critical issues in the relationship between culture and psychosis
• Cross-cultural understandings of psychosis experiences
• Cross-cultural approaches to the treatment of psychosis
• Recovery from psychosis in cultural context
• Working with culture and psychosis: practitioner perspectives
• Psychiatric medications for psychosis in global and cultural context
• Psychosis and the culture(s) of biomedicine/psychiatry
• Global mental health: benefits and critiques.
• Trauma, conflict and social suffering
• Culture, psychosis and marginalised identities (eg. ethnicity/gender/LGBTQ)
Alongside the research chapters we are also seeking thought pieces, poems, photo-essays, incantations, stories and other forms of writing that explore relationships between culture and psychosis from various perspectives, with a particular emphasis on lived experiences. By placing these alongside research chapters, we aim to draw together a collage through which different cultural expressions around psychosis can be represented and explored.
Interested authors are invited to submit an abstract of approximately 250 words, accompanied by a bio of 100 words, to Anna Lavis ([log in to unmask]) or Ingo Lambrecht ([log in to unmask]) by December 21st 2018. If accepted, submissions of no more than 6,000 words each (including abstract, notes, and references for research chapters) must be submitted by the end of July 2019.
Dr Anna Lavis
Lecturer in Medical Sociology: Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham
Affiliated - Institute for Mental Health, University of Birmingham / Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
ISPS Book Series Editor - http://www.isps.org/index.php/publications/book-series
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/applied-health/lavis-anna.aspx
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