Epistemic Justice in Mental Healthcare

Recognising Agency and Promoting Virtues Across the Life Span
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-68880-5
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 351 g

This open access book explores epistemic justice in mental healthcare, bringing together perspectives from psychologists, psychiatrists, philosophers, activists, and lived experience researchers. Through eight chapters, authors identify threats to the agency of people who hear voices, experience depression, have psychotic symptoms, live with dementia, are diagnosed with personality disorders, and face serious mental health issues while receiving palliative care. Considering the power asymmetries in clinical interactions, where patients are vulnerable and healthcare professionals are uniquely placed to offer support, this book reaffirms the importance of recognizing patients as agents and collaborators. Topics covered include trust in the therapeutic relationship, dignity at the end of life, the social dimension of health, stigma in an acute ward, the harm caused by biases and stereotypes, the role of clinical communication, and the promise of digital health. Students, academic researchers, practitioners, as well as mental health charities will benefit from this timely collection.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bortolotti, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Krankenpflege
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1:Being understood: epistemic injustice towards young people seeking support for their mental health.- Chapter 2:Challenging stereotypes about young people who hear voices.- Chapter 3:Reacting to demoralization and investigating the experience of dignity in psychosis: reflections from an acute psychiatric ward.-Chapter 4:Comparing depression and borderline personality disorder diagnoses through the lens of epistemic injustice.-Chapter 5:Resisting perceptions of patient untrustworthiness.- Chapter 6:Preserving dignity and epistemic justice in palliative care for patients with serious mental health problems.- Chapter 7:Promoting good living and social health in dementia.- Chapter 8:Ameliorating epistemic injustice with digital health technologies.

Über Autor(innen)

Lisa Bortolotti is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham, UK, affiliated with both the Philosophy Department and the Institute of Mental Health. She is a philosopher of the cognitive sciences with special interests in agency and mental health. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal (Taylor and Francis), and the author of (OUP 2009), (OUP 2020), and (Bloomsbury 2023). With Palgrave she published (2018), an edited collection on delusions with contributions by clinicians, lived experience researchers, psychologists, and philosophers, also available Open Access.