In recent years, medical and psychological anthropologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists
have worked towards establishing cultural phenomenological and context-specific forms of …

Methods Adopting a critical reflexive ethnographic approach, we analyse data from a
qualitative project involving 15 ethnographic observations of patient-physiotherapist …

Illness experiences are imbued with emotions for those receiving care, those giving care,
and those bearing witness. Emotions, as the crucial link between mind and body …

In this article, we explore the power of shared embodiment for the constitution of an affective
community. More specifically, we examine how people afflicted by long-term, arduous …

Scholars studying emotions in social life typically work mono-logically, within a paradigmatic
camp, drawing on distinct theories of emotion. In isolation, each offers a singular …

This book attempts to 'shake up'the current complacency around therapy and 'mental
health'behaviours by putting therapy fully into context using Social Contextual Analysis; …

Easing human suffering is a formidable endeavor, necessitating robust conceptual
frameworks to distill complexity into manageable issues. The way mental health problems …

Both post-qualitative inquiry and Mad methodologies sit on the fringes of qualitative health
research, although their potential for creating new knowledges and practices is increasingly …

This work anthropologically applies the concept of 'personhood'to the Western biomedical
patient role, and through cross-cultural comparisons with wellness-seeker roles (eg among …

This chapter is about peer support and open dialogue (OD). Peer support workers (PSWs)
purposefully bring to their work knowledge and wisdom gained through lived experience of …