Collier-Sewell Freya, Melino Katerina
Centre for Culture, Media and Society, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK.
Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Nurs Philos. 2023 Mar 10:e12433. doi: 10.1111/nup.12433.
The following dialogue takes up recent calls within nursing scholarship to critically imagine alternative nursing futures through the relational process of call and response. Towards this end, the dialogue builds on letters which we, the authors, exchanged as part of the 25th International Nursing Philosophy Conference in 2022. In these letters, we asked of ourselves and each other: If we were to think about a new philosophy of mental health nursing, what are some of the critical questions that we would need to ask? What warrants exploration? In thinking through these questions, our letters facilitated a collaborative enquiry in which philosophy and theory were generative tools for thinking beyond what is and towards what is yet to come. In this paper, we expand the dialogue within these letters-in a 'dialogue-on-dialogue'-and take up one thread of our discussion to argue that a new philosophy of mental health nursing must rethink the relationships between 'practitioner'/'self' and 'self'/'other' if it is to create a radically different future. Further, we posit solidarity and public love as possible alternatives to foregrounding the 'work' of mental health nursing. The possibilities we present here should be received as partial, contingent and unfinished. Indeed, our purpose in this paper is to provoke discussion and, in so doing, to model what we believe is a necessary shift towards criticality in our communities of nursing scholarship.
以下对话探讨了护理学术领域近期的呼声，即通过呼唤与回应的关系过程，批判性地构想护理的不同未来。为此，该对话基于我们作者在2022年第25届国际护理哲学会议期间交换的信件。在这些信件中，我们对自己和彼此提出了以下问题：如果我们要思考心理健康护理的新哲学，我们需要提出哪些关键问题？哪些值得探索？在思考这些问题的过程中，我们的信件促成了一项合作性探究，其中哲学和理论成为超越现状、展望未来的生成性工具。在本文中，我们在这些信件的基础上展开对话——在一场“关于对话的对话”中——并选取我们讨论的一个线索，主张心理健康护理的新哲学若要创造一个截然不同的未来，就必须重新思考“从业者”/“自我”与“自我”/“他者”之间的关系。此外，我们提出团结和公共之爱作为突出心理健康护理“工作”的可能替代方案。我们在此呈现的可能性应被视为不完整、偶然且未完成的。事实上，我们撰写本文的目的是引发讨论，并借此示范我们认为在护理学术社群中向批判性转变的必要举措。
