Week 1:
Schmid, P. F. (2014). Psychotherapy is political or it is not psychotherapy: The Person-Centered Approach is essentially a political venture. Psychotherapy and Politics International, 12(1), 4-17.
Bark, H., Dixon, J., & Laing, J. (2023). The professional identity of social workers in mental health services: A scoping review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(11), 5947. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20115947
Week 2:
Gamwell, L., & Tomes, N. (1995). Madness in America: Cultural and medical perceptions of mental illness before 1914. Cornell University Press. (Pages 10-35)
Evers, D. L. (2021). Nineteenth century moral treatment of mental illness wore many hats. Medicina Historica, 5(1), 1–9.
Week 3:
Harrington, A. (2019). Mind fixers: Psychiatry's troubled search for the biology of mental illness. W. W. Norton & Company, 3-97 (textbook)
Week 4:
Silver-Greenberg, J., & Thomas, K. (2024, September 1). How a leading chain of psychiatric hospitals traps patients. The New York Times.
Dumas-Mallet, E., & Gonon, F. (2020). Messaging in biological psychiatry: Misrepresentations, their causes, and potential consequences. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 28(6), 395–403.
Week 5:
Frances, A. (2013). Saving normal: An insider's revolt against out-of-control psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the medicalization of ordinary life (1st ed.). William Morrow, 117-205. (textbook)
Week 6:
Dziegielewski, S. F. (2013). Social work practice and psychopharmacology: A person-in-environment approach (2nd ed.). Springer Publishing Company. 3-16, 45-73.
Whitaker, R., & Cosgrove, L. (2015). Psychiatry under the influence: Institutional corruption, social injury, and prescriptions for reform. Palgrave Macmillan. 63-85
Week 7:
Berzoff, J. (2011). Why we need a biopsychosocial perspective with vulnerable, oppressed, and at-risk clients. Smith College Studies in Social Work, 81(2–3), 132–166.
Satcher, D., & Shim, R. S. (2015). A call to action: Addressing the social determinants of mental health. In M. T. Compton & R. S. Shim (Eds.), The social determinants of mental health (pp. 245–260). American Psychiatric Publishing.
Week 8:
Lunchaprasith, T., Wiwattarangkul, T., & Wainipitapong, S. (2021). Culture-bound syndrome. Chulalongkorn Medical Journal, 65(3), 349–357.
Becker, A. E. (2004). Television, disordered eating, and young women in Fiji: Negotiating body image and identity during rapid social change. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 28(4), 533–559.
Watters, E. (2010). The shifting mask of schizophrenia in Zanzibar. In Crazy like us: The globalization of the American psyche (Chap. 3, pp. 127–186). Free Press.
Week 9:
Martín-Baró, I. (1994). Toward a liberation psychology. In A. Aron & S. Corne (Eds.), Writings for a liberation psychology (pp. 17–32). Harvard University Press.
Brown, L. S. (2018). Feminist therapy (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association. 97-117.
Morgan, A. (2000). What is narrative therapy?: An easy‑to‑read introduction. Adelaide, South Australia: Dulwich Centre Publications.1-72
Week 10: TBD
