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Reconfiguring Recovery Beyond Linearity

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Feminism and a Vital Politics of Depression and Recovery

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Abstract

Promoting habits of coping through cognitive behaviour therapy has become a standard policy response to depression, yet such neoliberal appeals to self-care ignore the performative demands of gender that shape the emergence and recurrence of depression. We explore Karen Barad’s notion of nonlinear enfolding through the gendered ‘life course’ as a dynamic relation of spacetime mattering, marked by the heteronormative ‘transitions’ of puberty, motherhood and menopause. Acknowledging the more-than-human relationality of depression-recovery, we consider how biomedical expertise and objects (anti-depressants, ‘the pill’, Hormone Replacement Therapy, natural therapies, waiting lists, therapist bodies) are imbricated in women’s recovery. What becomes muted is the indeterminacy of distress (beyond normative depressive classification), the harmful effects of medication and other ways of ‘doing’ recovery in care-full ways (organisationally, politically, economically).

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Notes

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    For example, see Holly Bourne’s article “Jokes about ‘snowflakes’ ignore the crisis in young mental health”, 20 September 2018, The Guardian, UK.

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    A large Danish study was extensively reported on, for example, Holly Grigg-Spall (2016) The pill is linked to depression—and doctors can no longer ignore it, The Guardian, 3 October.

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    Simone Fullagar

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    Simone Fullagar

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Fullagar, S., O’Brien, W., Pavlidis, A. (2019). Reconfiguring Recovery Beyond Linearity. In: Feminism and a Vital Politics of Depression and Recovery. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11626-2_3

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