A5044727389- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Foucault, Power, and Ethics
- Art Therapy and Mental Health
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
- Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices
- Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
- Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
- Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Political theory and Gramsci
- Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Social Work Education and Practice
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies
- Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies
- Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Rhetoric and Communication Studies
- Public Spaces through Art
- Disability Rights and Representation
University of East London
2017-2025
City University of New York
2011-2015
The Graduate Center, CUNY
2010-2015
University of Auckland
2009
Stony Brook University
2008
Abstract The Tīpuna Project is a creative community‐based collaboration between Tangata Whenua (Indigenous) and Pākehā (White settler) researchers, artists activists in Aotearoa to experiment with the decolonial possibilities of communing our Indigenous settler ancestors. In this performative piece we, co‐leads Project, attempt tell stories how we arrived here, honouring ancestors as co‐researchers ‘participatory action research’ (PAR) process, considering enacting emerging relationship...
Recent years have seen a dramatic rise in statistical, professional, and popular accounts of bipolar disorder/' yet, unlike the case other occasions distress madness, few discussed broader context which these are enacted.1 Curious about this silence, essay I explore bodies politics swirling through representations bipolar, particular those produced by pharmaceutical industry Through depictions see at once an official disorder also emerging trope, as collaborative event contemporary United...
Fervently involved in exploring, theorizing and interrupting the medicalization of women’s madness sexuality, I have been feeling more than a little immobilized late – struck by how, despite decades feminist defiance, women remain continually subject to discourses, technologies politics that continue marginalize pathologize our (raced, classed sexed) distresses desires. Simultaneously provoked disheartened this ongoing enactment alongside critiques, am experiencing some sort intellectual...
Abstract Forensic psychiatric institutions are tasked with both containment and transformation, securely policing the border between institution society readying patients for return to community. can thus be theorised as a form of ‘rite passage’, engaged in process transformation which navigates demarcates social limits. This article contributes literature on risk control clinical by offering novel theoretical synthesis features rites passage liminality, facilitated an art project forensic...
Drawing on Michelle Fine's (2006) vision for social psychology, I argue radical archiving as a means "bearing witness".In March 2013 the Center Constitutional Rights filed class action lawsuit against New York Police Department their racist "stop and frisk" practices.I was asked by two connected collectives to sit in Floyd vs. City of make live
Abstract Recent years have seen a renewed interest in integrating creative activities into statutory mental health practice high‐income countries. In this article, we offer an exploratory analysis of arts project delivered within UK services, Creativity for Enablement and Wellbeing (CREW). Drawing on data collected process evaluation the project, suggest that conceptualising CREW as liminal liminoid provides helpful way to articulate processes, atmospheres, relationships, practices project....
Abstract With a surge in critiques levelled against the evidence generated by randomised controlled trials study of psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT), and legalization PAT select jurisdictions such as Australia, Oregon Colorado United States, we consider what form real-world its effects could take. Specifically, propose to complement individual-level data-gathering (the usual remit pharmacovigilance procedures) with PAT's collective effects. Taking our cue from long-standing claims that...
The point is not to institute new forms of intelligibility that become the basis selfrecognition. But neither celebrate unintelligibility as its own goal. The point, rather, move forward, awkwardly, with others, in a movement demands both courage and critical practices, form relating norms others does not ‘‘settle’’ into regime. I take this be way opening modes of sociality freedom. (Butler & Athanasiou, 2013, p. 68)