Introduction – Mental and Emotional Distress as a Social Justice Issue: Beyond Psychocentrism

Authors

  • Heidi Rimke University of Winnipeg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v10i1.1407

Keywords:

psychocentrism, psychiatrization, medicalization, mental distress, neoliberalism, social inequalities, social injustice, victim-blaming

Abstract

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Author Biography

Heidi Rimke, University of Winnipeg

Heidi Rimke, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Winnipeg. She has contributed to Cultural Studies (2000), History of the Human Sciences (2002), Violence and the Body (2003), International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences (2010), Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research (2010, 2012), Racism and Borders (2010), Criminology: Critical Canadian Perspectives (2011) Power and Everyday Practices (2011), Anti-Security (2012) and Manufacturing Social Phobias (2016). Her work examines  the pathological sciences of criminality and deviance in the realms of law, medicine, history, psychiatry, religion, politics, and culture. Most of her research is concerned with the social production of suffering and the rise of what she has termed “psychocentrism”.

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Published

2016-08-11

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Vol. 10 No. 1 (2016): Mental Health and Distress as a Social Justice Issue

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Mental Health & Distress as a Social Justice Issue

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