Subjectivity and Critical Mental Health: Lessons from Brazil

ISBN-13: 9780815369585 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 128 str.

Daniel Goulart

Opis

Drawing on the theories of González Rey, this book uses empirical findings to offer a critical reading of challenges relating to mental health reform. This is fascinating reading for students and academics interested in critical psychology, mental health, and education.

Spis treści

Foreword 1. Introduction  2. Deinstitutionalization and mental health  3. Subjectivity as a transverse concept  4. Subjective sense and subjective configuration: conceptual devices to foster new articulations within the mental health field  5. The subject and the agent beyond idealization 6. Subjective development and ethics of the subject: crucial challenges for critical mental health care  7. Final remarks Bibliography Index

O autorze

Daniel Magalhães Goulart is associate professor at the Faculty of Education and Health Sciences of the University Centre of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil. His research interests focus on critical psychology and education from the cultural-historical approach of subjectivity in the fields of: 1) critical mental health care; 2) subjective development and education; 3) strategies beyond the pathologization of life.