1st Edition

Subjectivity and Critical Mental Health Lessons from Brazil

By Daniel Goulart Copyright 2019
138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

Subjectivity and Critical Mental Health: Lessons from Brazil presents and discusses subjectivity as a key concept to challenge the individualized and reified perspective that psychology and mental health studies have traditionally sustained. Situated against the maintenance of hierarchical, unilateral and objectifying relations within mental health, this book is a timely and necessary critical... Read more

Foreword 1. Introduction  2. Deinstitutionalization and mental health  3. Subjectivity as a transverse concept  4. Subjective sense and subjective configuration: conceptual devices to foster new articulations within the mental health field  5. The subject and the agent beyond idealization 6. Subjective development and ethics of the subject: crucial challenges for critical mental health care  7. Final remarks Bibliography Index

Biography

Daniel Magalhães Goulart is associate professor at the Faculty of Education and Health Sciences of the University Centre of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil. His research interests focus on critical psychology and education from the cultural-historical approach of subjectivity in the fields of: 1) critical mental health care; 2) subjective development and education; 3) strategies beyond the pathologization of life.