ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2024
The struggle for the social: rejecting the false separation of 'social' worlds in mental health spaces.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- Poverty-reduction interventions combined with psychological interventions: A systematic literature review.Scientific reports · 2025Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Frailty Interventions in Community-Based Low and Middle-Income Settings.International journal of public health · 2025Pooled it
- A social determination framework for mental health.Globalization and health · 2026Article
- Honouring complexity and social justice in mental health: The socio-political economy of global mental health framework.PLOS mental health · 2026Article
- The power of the social: A systematic review and meta-analysis of social interventions in Global Mental Health.PLOS mental health · 2026Article
- The long-term effects of cash transfer programmes on young adults' mental health: a quasi-experimental study of Colombia, Mexico, and South Africa.Health policy and planning · 2025Article
- Mental health on two continua: mental wellbeing and common mental disorders in a community-based cross-sectional study with women in urban informal settlements in India.BMC women's health · 2024Article
- Inverting the deficit model in global mental health: An examination of strengths and assets of community mental health care in Ghana, India, Occupied Palestinian territories, and South Africa.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
How are we to best grapple with the notion of the Social in mental health landscapes? This piece of speculative work explores a series of tensions that emerge in our attempt to contemplate, engage with, and address the social in mental health spaces. First, I will explore the tensions created by disciplinary demands for specialisation, questioning the value of this with regard to treating social and emotional bodies which continually reject such fragmentation. This line of inquiry then leads to reflection on the value of a social topology-enabled through the application of intersectionality principles, Black Sociological analytical frameworks, including the worldview approach, and societal psychological perspectives on knowledge and action. I argue the possibilities in actioning these approaches emerge through the application of a social-political economy of mental health, that holds the complexity presented by the totality of social life as it potentially relates to mental health. The piece seeks to advance a space of thinking on how we transition global mental health projects to be more effectively situated in a needed commitment for social justice as a remedy and repair to broken social worlds.
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