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P05


Different ways to become known and knowable as a person: ideas, ideology and epistemic injustices in Global Mental Health 
Convenors:
Nigel Cox (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Lucy Webb (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Location:
FUL-104
Start time:
11 September, 2015 at
Time zone: Europe/London
Session slots:
2

Short Abstract:

With a Global Mental Health focus, this panel explores ideas, ideologies and methodologies spread by Western psychiatry/psychology. Through exposition and argument, the panel will discuss the export of psychiatric/psychological expertise to non-Western contexts, proffering solutions for practice

Long Abstract:

This panel will debate Global Mental Health, and will explore the ideas, moralities, ideologies and methodologies propagated by Western psychology and psychiatry. Over two decades of enquiry, Nikolas Rose and others have shown that, in the West, psychological self-sufficiency is accorded considerable privilege. The means by which a person can become known (and knowable) are ascribed by psychiatric and psychological knowledge and their schemata: for instance, one can be known (or know oneself) as depressed, 'emotionally intelligent', or versed in 'mindfulness'. Such discourses partly establish and sustain ways in which mental well-being is understood in the West. It is from this position that the export of psychiatric and psychological expertise to non-Western contexts may problematized. Can researchers and practitioners reconcile Western and non-Western mental health knowledge, beliefs and practices? What is the nature of this reconciliation? Would such a reconciliation aid or hinder recovery from mental 'illness'? Moreover, in attempting to 'do good', do researchers and practitioners risk misunderstanding, obscuring or misappropriating local practices in ways that are (epistemically) injurious? This panel will debate all of these points.

Accepted papers:

Session 1