La (de)colonización va por dentro: Profesionales de salud mental en el trabajo con migrantes haitianos y agrupaciones de usuarios y exusuarios activistas de servicios de salud mental en Chile
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La (de)colonización va por dentro: Profesionales de salud mental en el trabajo con migrantes haitianos y agrupaciones de usuarios y exusuarios activistas de servicios de salud mental en Chile. / Abarca Brown, Gabriel Antonio; Montenegro, Cristian.
In: Revista de Antropología Social, Vol. 32, No. 2, 2023, p. 129-140.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - La (de)colonización va por dentro: Profesionales de salud mental en el trabajo con migrantes haitianos y agrupaciones de usuarios y exusuarios activistas de servicios de salud mental en Chile
AU - Abarca Brown, Gabriel Antonio
AU - Montenegro, Cristian
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - We explore the epistemic, political, and ethical contradictions and conflicts that mental health practitioners embody in their work and interaction with Haitian migrants and activist service-user and ex-user groups in the public health system in Chile –marked by neoliberalization processes during the last thirty years. Based on two ethnographies, we argue that the work with both groups interrogates mental health practitioners regarding the scope of their disciplines and on a professional-individual level. Rather than passively reproducing discourses and practices of domination, practitioners embody contradictions and conflicts triggered by the incompatibility between psy-disciplines; the knowledge and practices anchored in Haitian-Creole medicine and Vodou; and the radical questioning of diagnoses and treatments developed by activist service-user and ex-user groups. Practitioners question and challenge the universalist conceptions of identity, the mind, suffering, and treatment. Rather than an intellectual exercise, we emphasize that a call for decolonization implies the politicization of professional practice in –or outside– the borders of psychiatry and mental health as a system of government.
AB - We explore the epistemic, political, and ethical contradictions and conflicts that mental health practitioners embody in their work and interaction with Haitian migrants and activist service-user and ex-user groups in the public health system in Chile –marked by neoliberalization processes during the last thirty years. Based on two ethnographies, we argue that the work with both groups interrogates mental health practitioners regarding the scope of their disciplines and on a professional-individual level. Rather than passively reproducing discourses and practices of domination, practitioners embody contradictions and conflicts triggered by the incompatibility between psy-disciplines; the knowledge and practices anchored in Haitian-Creole medicine and Vodou; and the radical questioning of diagnoses and treatments developed by activist service-user and ex-user groups. Practitioners question and challenge the universalist conceptions of identity, the mind, suffering, and treatment. Rather than an intellectual exercise, we emphasize that a call for decolonization implies the politicization of professional practice in –or outside– the borders of psychiatry and mental health as a system of government.
U2 - 10.5209/raso.91746
DO - 10.5209/raso.91746
M3 - Tidsskriftartikel
VL - 32
SP - 129
EP - 140
JO - Revista de Antropología Social
JF - Revista de Antropología Social
SN - 1988-2831
IS - 2
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