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Troubled Persons Industries

The Expansion of Psychiatric Categories beyond Psychiatry

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Editors:
  1. Martin Harbusch

    1. Department of Social Sciences, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany

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  • Addresses current issues with psychiatric labelling.

  • Highlights the need to consider the individual in psychiatric diagnosis.

  • Explores the effects psychiatric narratives have on staff working within troubled persons industries

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: Are We All Mad Here? The Normalization of “Trouble” in Everyday Life

    • Martin Harbusch
    Pages 1-21

  3. Psychiatrisation of School Children: Secondary School Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices on Mental Health and Illness

    • Zoe Timimi, Sami Timimi
    Pages 23-47

  4. Governing Emotions in School

    • Roberto McLeay, Darren Powell
    Pages 49-76

  5. The ADHD Industry: The Psychiatrisation of the School System in Its Labour Market Context

    • Charles Marley, David Fryer
    Pages 77-105

  6. Confronting Neoliberalism’s Campus Culture and the Era of “Poor Me”

    • Stephen L. Muzzatti, Dawn L. Rothe
    Pages 107-127

  7. Psychiatric Expansion and the Rise of Workplace Mental Health Initiatives

    • Bruce M. Z. Cohen
    Pages 129-145

  8. Orthorexia Nervosa: The Medicalization of Extreme Healthy Eating Practices

    • Alison Fixsen, Anna Cheshire
    Pages 147-170

  9. The Psychiatric Surveillance of Pregnancy and Early Parenting

    • Emma Tseris
    Pages 171-191

  10. Unpacking the Labelling Process: Framing Responsibility in Sex Addiction

    • Emmanuelle Larocque, Baptiste Brossard, Dahlia Namian
    Pages 193-219

  11. Carceral Psychiatry

    • Ruari-Santiago McBride
    Pages 221-243

  12. Cannabis Use and Mental Health: Paradoxes of Medicalization

    • William Dolphin, Michelle Newhart
    Pages 245-287

  13. Mental Health Categories and the Construction of Cultural Identities in the United States and New Zealand

    • Charles W. Nuckolls
    Pages 289-317

  14. Conclusion

    • Michael Dellwing, Martin Harbusch
    Pages 319-338

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 339-345
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About this book

This book critiques the use of psychiatric labelling and psychiatric narratives in everyday areas of institutional and social life across the globe. It engages an interpretive sociology, emphasising the medial and individual everyday practices of medicalisation, and their role in establishing and diffusing conceptions of mental (ab)normality. 

The reconstruction of psychiatric narratives is currently taking place in multiple contexts, many of which are no longer strictly psychiatric. On the one hand, psychiatric narratives now pervade contemporary public discourses and institutions though advertising, news and internet sites. On the other hand, professionals like social workers, teachers, counsellors, disability advisors, lawyers, nurses and/or health insurance staff dealing with psychiatric narratives are becoming servants of the psychiatric discourse within “troubled person’s industries”. Abstract academic categories get turned into concrete aggrieved victims of these categorisations and academic formulas turned into individual narratives. To receive support it seems, one must be labelled. 

The practice-oriented micro-sociological field with which this volume is concerned has only recently begun to integrate itself into public and academic debates regarding medicalisation and the social role of psychiatry. Discussions on the evolution and expansion of official diagnoses within academia, and society in general, frequently overlook the individualised roles of psychiatric diagnoses and the experiences of those involved and affected by these processes, an oversight which this volume seeks to both highlight and address. 




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“The book provides (possibly by accident) radical commentary on emergent forms of medico-industrial-state relations as well … . Indeed, it was the ability to give it such a reading that had the most effect on this reader and fully exposed the book’s value. Thus, though I recommend it to anyone interested in psychiatric hegemony … I also recommend it to every sociologist … . I found its observations and its implications traveled well beyond the parameters of psychiatrization … stunning.” (Robert Wade Kenny, Symbolic Interaction, February 2, 2023)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Social Sciences, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany

    Martin Harbusch

About the editor

Martin Harbusch works at the University of Siegen and at the University of Hagen in Germany. His teaching and research address the sociology of mental health, with a specific focus on the use of categories of mental health and illness in contexts of social work. He also teaches Qualitative Methods at the University of Lüneburg, Germany.



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