Racine, Catherine A.,

Beyond clinical dehumanisation toward the other in community mental health care : levinas, wonder and autoethnography / Catherine A. Racine. - 1 online resource. - Psychology and the other .

"Beyond Clinical Dehumanisation Toward the Other offers a rare and intimate portrayal of the moral process of a mental health clinician that interrogates the intractable problem of systemic dehumanization in community mental health care, and looks to the notion of 'wonder,' and the visionary relational ethics of Emmanuel Levinas, for a possible cure. This book is an ethical primer for mental health professionals, researchers, educators, advocates and service users working to re-imagine and heal a broken system by challenging the underpinnings of entrenched dehumanization and standing with those they "serve""--

9781003052760 1003052762 9781000363401 1000363406 9781000363432 1000363430 9781000363371 1000363376

10.4324/9781003052760 doi


Psychiatric ethics.
Community mental health services--Moral and ethical aspects.
PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology
PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Psychoanalysis

RC455.2.E8 / R33 2021

174.2/9689