Critical knowledge about the mental health system is not readily available to people seeking support. Claims about chemical imbalance and psychiatric pathology emphasize individual deficiency while obfuscating the dis-ease produced by capitalist, colonial, white supremacist, ableist, and cis-heteronormative systems and structures. A Critical Mental Health Primer synthesizes and expands the peer-reviewed critique of mental health intervention. Highlighting non-pathologizing traditions of care and resistance, this primer offers strategies for building public access to critical mental health knowledge—bringing us closer to dignity, liberation, and informed choice for all.
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About A Critical Mental Health Primer: Towards Informed Choice in Social Services, Education, and Healthcare
In A Critical Mental Health Primer, Dr. Jan DeFehr, associate professor with twenty years of clinical social work experience, provides an overview of critical mental health scholarship, arguing that providing access to critical mental health knowledge is a prerequisite for ethical practice.
Through a peer-reviewed critique of psychiatry and its broad field of mental health, topics explored include scientific critique of evidence; the potential long-term harm caused by mental disorder diagnoses; key concerns related to lack of transparency and procedural justice; anti-colonial critiques of the mental health system; critiques concerning psychiatric drugs and the DSM; ethical standards of care; and practical guidance for supporting one another outside of the dominant mental health model.
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