The "World Mental Health" framework: Dominant discourses in mental health and international development.
This paper draws on experiences and research in mental health and international development to explore a dominant "World Mental Health" discourse. This kind of analysis provides a starting place to examine the critiques and ongoing theorizing of a global mental health ideology. Seeing the field as it is socially organized (Smith, 1987, 1990a, 1999) necessitates an understanding of how an ideological "World Mental Health" is discursively arranged as part of a global undertaking to decrease poverty and increase capitalist productivity and trade. Through this exploration of the discourses in use internationally, I argue that rediscovering local truth is possible as researchers pursue and share knowledge that has as its starting place a way of knowing outside these dominant discourses.
Jakubec
Sonya
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University of Calgary.
D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D038801:International Classification of Diseases; D007391:International Cooperation; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*