All Outputs (14)

Mental Health and Otherness: Intersections between Gender, Race, Class and Age (2024)
Book

Based on two decades of research in Brazil and the UK, this book explores the ways in which intersections of gender, race and class affect the positioning of the subject as 'Other' in discourses of health, and how the positioning of the subject as 'O... Read More about Mental Health and Otherness: Intersections between Gender, Race, Class and Age.

Subjectivity and psychoanalysis: A conversation with Ian Parker (2021)
Journal Article

The interview centres on Ian Parker’s book Psychoanalysis, Clinic and Context: Subjectivity, History and Autobiography. London: Routledge (2019). In this publication Parker provides an account of psychoanalysis and history, situating his own biograph... Read More about Subjectivity and psychoanalysis: A conversation with Ian Parker.

“Outras crianças”: Nossos discursos. Reflexões sobre a clínica com crianças imigrantes (2021)
Journal Article

Resumo.Este artigo pretende trazer reflexões para a clínica,com foco na relação com a alteridade a partir da experiência no trabalho com crianças imigrantes na cidade de São Paulo. Considerando que na contemporaneidade as crianças são interpeladas, c... Read More about “Outras crianças”: Nossos discursos. Reflexões sobre a clínica com crianças imigrantes.

O cuidado com gestantes que usam drogas: análise de práticas em políticas públicas de saúde no Sul do Brasil (2021)
Journal Article

Este artigo tem como objetivo debater práticas de cuidado com gestantes usuárias de drogas nas políticas públicas, considerando o modo como relações de gênero influenciam as práticas de saúde. Partimos de uma pesquisa etnográfica realizada em uma uni... Read More about O cuidado com gestantes que usam drogas: análise de práticas em políticas públicas de saúde no Sul do Brasil.

Reflections on the theory and practice of intersectionality: Immigration and health provision services in Brazil (2018)
Book Chapter

The aim of this chapter is to enquire how an intersectional analytical approach can help us understand the process of “Othering” of certain groups and how it affects public policies and public service provisions. Using, as a case study, the contempor... Read More about Reflections on the theory and practice of intersectionality: Immigration and health provision services in Brazil.

Borders and margins: Debates on intersectionality for critical research (2016)
Journal Article

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to debate intersectionality as a key methodological aspect for critical research. While intersectionality is a consensus for critical studies, it is important to highlight the challenges that a perspective that c... Read More about Borders and margins: Debates on intersectionality for critical research.

Some aspects on travestility, transsexuality and ageing: history, body and immigration (2015)
Journal Article

This article brings some aspects on transvestitility and transsexuality and aging, based on the research Travestisility and Aging. There is a lack of research on the topic of aging of the transvestite and transsexual population, while there are a lar... Read More about Some aspects on travestility, transsexuality and ageing: history, body and immigration.

Experiencing ‘pathologized presence and normalized absence’; understanding health related experiences and access to health care among Iraqi and Somali asylum seekers, refugees and persons without legal status (2015)
Journal Article

Background: Asylum seekers, refugees and persons without legal status have been reported to experience a range of difficulties when accessing public services and supports in the UK. While research has identified health care barriers to equitable acce... Read More about Experiencing ‘pathologized presence and normalized absence’; understanding health related experiences and access to health care among Iraqi and Somali asylum seekers, refugees and persons without legal status.

O outro: Análise crítica de discursos sobre imigração e gênero (2015)
Journal Article

This article aims to develop a critical analysis of discourses on immigration and the position that some immigrants occupy in the social discourse. The focus is on the minimization process of some groups, highlighting the gender issue and the interse... Read More about O outro: Análise crítica de discursos sobre imigração e gênero.

Drugs, Overview (2014)
Book Chapter

Debates around drugs and drug use are of crucial importance for critical psychology. While most debates are centered on pharmacological, medical, and criminological fields, the debates incorporate central issues for critical psychology, as well as fo... Read More about Drugs, Overview.

Fetishism (2014)
Other

Fetishism is an important notion for human sciences and medical sciences. It has been used in anthropology, sociology, psychoanalysis, health disciplines and has become widespread in lay discourses. Fetishism has been used for the analysis of certain... Read More about Fetishism.

Cultural Ecstasies: Drugs, Gender and the Social Imaginary (2012)
Book

In this important contribution to the field, Ilana Mountian critically analyses discourses surrounding drug addiction, drug prohibition, treatment and prevention, and highlights new ways of understanding the role that gender plays in the ethics of dr... Read More about Cultural Ecstasies: Drugs, Gender and the Social Imaginary.

Psychoanalytic listening to socially excluded young people (2012)
Journal Article

Individuals excluded from ‘the social contract’ are subject to a certain irruption of the traumatic, understood as subjective disorganization resulting from the emergence of that which is outside sense and outside signification. Such subjects experie... Read More about Psychoanalytic listening to socially excluded young people.

Queer methods and methodologies: intersecting queer theories and social science research: edited by Kath Browne and Catherine J. Nash, Surrey, Ashgate, 2010, 301 pp., £65 (hardback), ISBN 987-0-7546-7843-4 (2011)
Journal Article