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.
Sousa, A. J. (2016). Diagnostic neutrality in psychiatric treatment in North India. In T. M. Luhrmann & J. Marrow (Eds.), Our most troubling madness: Case studies in schizophrenia across cultures (pp. 42–55). University of California 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.
Madigan, S. (2019). Narrative therapy (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association. 63-108.
Week 10: TBD
