Published: 2020-05-25
Editors' Introduction
The Place of Mental Health Rhetoric Research (MHRR) in Rhetoric of Health and Medicine and Beyond
iii-x
AbstractIn sum, unlike some special issues that might be sort of “one off” engagements with interesting fringe topics, this is no “flash in the pan.”...
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Distributed and Mediated Ethos in a Mental Health Call Center
133-162
AbstractThis pilot study of a mental health call center clinician’s workplace tools, processes, and organizational structures proposes a...
Through the Agency of Words: Women in the American Insane Asylum, 1842–1890
163-188
AbstractBetween 1842 and 1890, 23 women wrote 33 memoirs about their time spent incarcerated in American insane asylums. While a handful of these...
Post-Vietnam Syndrome: Psychiatry, Anti-War Politics, and the Reconstitution of the Vietnam Veteran
189-219
AbstractUsing primary source materials from medical, government, and journalism archives, this study of public medical discourse reveals the role of...
The Development of American Psychiatry’s Professional Style: DSM-III’s “Common Language”
220-248
AbstractThis article analyzes psychiatrists’ metadiscourse about the textual standardization of discourse practices in the third edition of the...
Teaching and Researching with a Mental Health Diagnosis: Practices and Perspectives on Academic Ableism
AbstractNine people with mental health diagnoses wrote a dialogue to discuss how we navigate our conditions and ask for accommodations within an...