Inserm and Cermes (Research Center for Medicine, Health, Mental Health and Society - UMR 8211), Villejuif, France.
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King's College London, London, UK.
Cult Med Psychiatry. 2019 Dec;43(4):519-547. doi: 10.1007/s11013-019-09660-7.
Within the proliferation of studies identified with global mental health, anthropologists rarely take global mental health itself as their object of inquiry. The papers in this special issue were selected specifically to problematize global mental health. To contextualize them, this introduction critically weighs three possible genealogies through which the emergence of global health can be explored: (1) as a divergent thread in the qualitative turn of global health away from earlier international health and development; (2) as the product of networks and social movements; and (3) as a diagnostically- and metrics-driven psychiatric imperialism, reinforced by pharmaceutical markets. Each paper tackles a different component of the assemblage of global mental health: knowledge production and circulation, global mental health principles enacted in situ, and subaltern modalities of healing through which global mental health can be questioned. Pluralizing anthropology, the articles include research sites in meeting rooms, universities, research laboratories, clinics, healers and health screening camps, households, and the public spaces of everyday life, in India, Ghana, Brazil, Senegal, South Africa, Kosovo and Palestine, as well as in US and European institutions that constitute nodes in the global network through which scientific knowledge and certain models of mental health circulate.
在众多与全球心理健康相关的研究中，人类学家很少将全球心理健康本身作为他们的研究对象。本期特刊中的论文专门选择了对全球心理健康进行问题化处理。为了给它们提供背景，本引言批判性地权衡了可以探索全球健康出现的三种可能的谱系：(1) 作为全球健康定性转向的一个分支，远离早期的国际卫生和发展；(2) 作为网络和社会运动的产物；以及 (3) 作为一种诊断和指标驱动的精神病学帝国主义，由制药市场加强。每篇论文都探讨了全球心理健康组合的不同组成部分：知识的产生和传播、在当地实施的全球心理健康原则，以及通过这些原则可以对全球心理健康提出质疑的从属治疗模式。这些文章通过多元化的人类学研究，包括在会议室、大学、研究实验室、诊所、治疗师和健康筛查营地、家庭以及印度、加纳、巴西、塞内加尔、南非、科索沃和巴勒斯坦等地的日常生活公共空间进行的研究，以及在美国和欧洲的机构进行的研究，这些机构通过科学知识和某些心理健康模式的传播构成了全球网络的节点。
