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Trauma, Women’s Mental Health, and Social Justice: Pitfalls and Possibilities book cover

1st Edition

Trauma, Women’s Mental Health, and Social Justice Pitfalls and Possibilities

By Emma Tseris Copyright 2019
138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge
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This book argues that while notions of trauma in mental health hold promise for the advancement of women’s rights, the mainstreaming of trauma treatments and therapies has had mixed implications, sometimes replacing genuine social change efforts with new forms of female oppression by psychiatry. It contends that trauma interventions often represent a "business as usual" approach within... Read more

1. Introducing a Critical Perspective on Trauma  2. Interrogating Biomedical Dominance: Critical and Feminist Perspectives on Mental Health  3. The Mainstreaming of Trauma in Mental Health: Radical Critique, or Business as Usual?  4. Symptoms or Social Justice? Contested Understandings of Trauma  5. Dysfunctional and Responsible: Women’s Accounts of Therapeutic Responses to Gender-Based Violence  6. De-therapising Trauma: Negotiating the Contested Trauma Concept

Biography

Emma Tseris is a Lecturer in Social Work and Policy Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, where her research and teaching areas include critical mental health theory, mental health and gender inequality, and narrative research methodologies.

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