Racine Catherine A. - Beyond Clinical Dehumanisation Towards The Other In Community Mental Health Care Levinas Wonder And Autoethnography - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Beyond Clinical Dehumanisation Toward the Other in Community Mental Health Care offers a rare and intimate portrayal of the moral process of a mental health clinician that interrogates the intractable problem of systemic dehumanisation in community mental health care and looks to the notion of "wonder" and the visionary relational ethics of Emmanuel Levinas for a possible cure. An interdisciplinary study with transdisciplinary aspirations this book contributes an original and compelling voice to the emerging therapeutic conversation attempting to re - imagine and transcend the objectifying constraints of the dominant discourse and the reductive world view that drives it. Chapters bring into dialogue the fields of community mental health care psychology psychology and the Other the philosophy of wonder Levinasian ethics clinical ethics the moral research of autoethnography and the medical humanities to consider the defilement of the vulnerable help seeker the moral injury of the clinician and look for answers beyond. This book is an ethical primer for mental health professionals researchers educators advocates and service users working to re - imagine and heal a broken system by challenging the underpinnings of entrenched dehumanisation and standing with those they "serve".
Title: Beyond Clinical Dehumanisation Towards The Other In Community Mental Health Care Levinas Wonder And Autoethnography
Author(s): Racine Catherine A.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367511937
Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Date: 3/31/2021
Series: Psychology and the Other
Category: Psychiatry