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9780415576260

Madness in International Relations: Psychology, Security, and the Global Governance of Mental Health

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415576260

  • ISBN10:

    0415576261

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-07-15
  • Publisher: Routledge

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This book provides a novel approach to the study of security and global governance by demonstrating that psychological interventions are integral to global governmentality. It brings together three divergent case studies in order to illustrate how therapeutic interventions are deployed in a range of global governance projects, and, as such, how the psy disciplines (psychiatry, psychology, and their sub-disciplines) are called upon in the pursuit of global security and order. This book argues that global order is pursued quite literally through attempts to quash purported psychological disorders, in disparate sites. In each case study, the author traces a 'diagnostic competition' over the psychological state of a targeted population, in order to assess the effects of the problematization of the psyches of these populations. The empirical case studies of therapeutic interventions are as follows:1. Guantánamo Bay, where both the US military and human rights organizations deployed psychiatric diagnoses of the detainees in order to represent their reported suicide attempts as evidence that the detainees were either madmen or victims2. Post-conflict populations, where two models for the delivery of psychological aid have been forged: the psychosocial and the mental health models3. The Canadian military, where so-called Operational Stress Injuries amongst soldiers have been treated with the aim of returning soldiers to duty in the service of global order and securityBy bringing these case studies together, this study provides a novel approach to the study of security and global governance. It demonstrates that the global governance of minds is not a coordinated effort, but proceeds on a variety of fronts. Additionally, the cases show how therapeutic interventions are sometimes coercive, but at other times benevolent, depending on whether the subject population is considered a threat (Guantanamo detainees), victim (post-conflict populations), or provider (Canadian soldiers) of security and order. The case studies thus run from the most coercive/sovereign to the most benevolent/governmental.

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