scholarly journals Markedsliberalistiske forskyvninger i det psykiske helsefeltet – om forholdet mellom politisk styring og faglig disiplinering

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Bengt Karlsson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Field ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Leadership And Management ◽  
Control Power ◽  
Decisive Influence ◽  
Health Field ◽  
New Framework

Since 1998, there has been several extensive reforms in the mental health field in Norway. The reforms have changed the basic politics and conditions for the development of the field and set out a new framework for the different actors' participation. There are tensions in the development of the field with different strategies focusing on demands for change and better quality in the services. The reforms highlights different aspects of leadership and management through control, power and knowledge, discipline and self-discipline. The change of services also require ways to change the professionals and the citizens' different identities. The ways they collaborate and relate to one another are being standardized and often experienced as depersonalized. Meanwhile, both the service users and the professionals are involved in the governance and thus have a decisive influence on the success of the changes. This is a disciplinarian of the professionals into practices based in neoliberal thinking rather than based in professionals' knowledge from experience and practice. Many professionals experience their autonomy as reduced and threatened. They are being forced into a certain ways of organizing and practicing their work.

scholarly journals Clinicians, researchers and community activism: lessons for mental health services from another field of medicine – HIV/AIDS

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 81-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Miller
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Consumer Involvement ◽  
Consumer Participation ◽  
Mental Health Field ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Productive Force ◽  
Health Field ◽  
Hiv Aids

SummaryConsumer participation in mental health services has grown in recent years. Preceding this, a very productive collaboration in another area – the emerging crisis of HIV/AIDS – built a coalition of service users, researchers and clinicians which had a decisive impact on research and saved many lives. There is much to learn from this for the mental health field, where, at present, partnership between service users, caregivers, researchers and clinicians is not such a productive force. This editorial outlines the respective histories in these two areas and the lessons to be learnt for consumer involvement in the mental health field.

The Person with Schizophrenia as a Person

1994 ◽  
Vol 164 (S23) ◽  
pp. 103-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Strauss
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Mental Health Field ◽  
Objective Measures ◽  
Health Field ◽  
Subjective Side

In the mental health field, the attention given to the subjective side of a person's experience is grossly inadequate. The best way to reflect the subjectivity of a person may be by means of the subjectivity of another. To take account of both subjective experience and objective measures in the course of mental disorders, a new concept is needed. This may be the person's story.

Psy-science and the colonial relationship in the mental health field

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 176-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.J. Penson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Mental Health Field ◽  
Frames Of Reference ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Health Field ◽  
Critical Literature

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to critically discuss how the psy-sciences have been, and continue to be, typified by some critics, as colonizers and are credited with Imperialistic motivations. However, rarely are these critiques developed beyond a pejorative characterisation. Design/methodology/approach – This paper reviews the criticisms of psychiatry as colonial and outlines the tensions in taking different frames of reference in the mental health field, before going on to suggest theoretical and research perspectives arising from postcolonial theory that might advance these critical positions more coherently and the implications of doing so. Findings – This study suggests an engagement with humanities-based methods and fields such as postcolonial scholarship. Social implications – This argument is timely, especially given recent controversies over the publication of DSM5, the scaling up agenda for mental health in the Global South and increased attention to the agenda of Big Pharma. Originality/value – Postcolonial intersections with psy-science remains a relatively undeveloped area in the critical literature.

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