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Author:   Ilana Mountian
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032871608

ISBN 10:   1032871601
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   21 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction: on othering processes Part 1: From theory: laying foundations 1. Framing the Other 1.1. (Re)producing the Other 1.2. Fetishised relations 1.3. Celebrating difference: on otherness and sameness 1.4. Working with intersections 1.5. Encountering the Other 2. Mental health classifications and othering processes: on addiction, depression and sexual disorders2.1. Women and mental health: on depression and hysteria 2.2. Immigration, race and mental health: diagnosis and prescription 2.3. Transsexuality and homosexuality: the body and diagnosis 2.4. The production of drug addiction and minoritised groups Part 2: To practice: researching mental health 3. Immigration, gender and mental health in England and Brazil3.1. Immigration processes and mental health in the UK 3.2. Asylum seekers' and refugees' access to health services and mental health issues3.3. Immigration and health services in Brazil: gender, race and mental health3.4. Reflections on the Encounter: Decolonising Mental Health 4. Mental health and sexuality: reflections on older travestis and transwomen in Brazil 4.1. Contextualising Travestis and Trans People in Brazil 4.2. Travestis, transgender, transsexual women and ageing 4.3. Revisiting history: military Dictatorship, AIDS and immigration 5. Discourses on drug addiction and gender 5.1. Social imaginary of the drug addict 5.2. Social imaginary of women and drugs in Brazil 5.3. Drug policy, gender, sexuality and race Conclusions: decolonising mental health Appendix 1: main research projects cited Appendix 2: list of community organisations assisting the research health experiences of access to health

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Ilana Mountian is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of the West of England. Member of the School of Psychoanalysis of the Forum of the Lacanian Field and the Discourse Unit. Author of Cultural Ecstasies: Drugs, Gender and the Social Imaginary (Routledge, 2013).

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