1st Edition
Mental Health and Otherness Intersections between Gender, Race, Class and Age
Introduction
1. Framing the Other
2. Deconstructing Mental Health
3. On Immigrants
4. On Travestis and Transgender People
5. On Drug Users
Conclusion
Biography
Ilana Mountian is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of the West of England. Member of the School of Psychoanalysis of the Forum of the Lacanian Field and the Discourse Unit. Author of Cultural Ecstasies: Drugs, Gender and the Social Imaginary (Routledge, 2013).
“Mental Health and Otherness represents over 20 years of empirical work exploring the production of otherness by Ilana Mountian. Bringing together conceptual, embodied and organisational considerations, Mountian draws on her extensive expertise to open up a nuanced and thoughtful approach to how the intersection of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, class and health can provide outcomes that resist attempts to manage them. This book contemplates our ability to challenge and transform established perspectives to produce emancipatory possibilities. I would highly recommend this book to those, primarily advanced students and scholars, interested in the processes of minoritisation and how these relate to otherness and our sense making around mental health.” - Rose Capdevilla, Open University
“Mental Health and Otherness offers a groundbreaking examination of how intersections of gender, race, and class shape mental health narratives for marginalized groups. Drawing from her extensive research and clinical practice, Ilana Mountian provides a compelling synthesis of feminist, post-colonial, and psychoanalytic insights, unpacking the stigmatization of immigrants, transgender individuals, and drug users in healthcare. This essential work challenges entrenched medical paradigms, urging readers to reconsider mental health practices and discourses within broader sociocultural frameworks.” - Angel Gordo Lopez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
