Self-Cutting Among Anti-Psychiatric Healing Collectives in Spain
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sussex
Department Name: Sch of Global Studies
Abstract
This proposed ethnographic project will examine self-harm, peer-support, and political advocacy among anti-psychiatric feminist collectives in Spain, with a view to understanding emerging forms of grass-roots mental healthcare and the implications these may have for clinicians. I will consider the ways in which self-cutting can be conceived of as a social act that implicates others, and ask how the embodied private, social, and political practises of people experiencing psychiatric symptoms can challenge both psychiatric treatment regimes, and notions of self/other boundaries in a discourse that otherwise designates the individual as pathological . This project aims to reduce social stigma faced by people with psychiatric conditions, and explore what can be learned from alternate approaches to addressing psychic distress and self-cutting, by specifically outlining the impacts of agential bleeding (bleeding that is, to some extent, chosen) on individuals, social networks, and political processes.
Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
Paul Boyce (Primary Supervisor) | |
Annabelle Inman (Student) |
Studentship Projects
Project Reference | Relationship | Related To | Start | End | Student Name |
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ES/J500173/1 | 30/09/2011 | 01/10/2022 | |||
2212469 | Studentship | ES/J500173/1 | 30/09/2019 | 29/09/2025 | Annabelle Inman |
ES/P00072X/1 | 30/09/2017 | 29/09/2027 | |||
2212469 | Studentship | ES/P00072X/1 | 30/09/2019 | 29/09/2025 | Annabelle Inman |