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Making Good of Crisis: Temporalities of Care in UK Mental Health Services.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Wright, Fiona 

Abstract

A paradoxical concept of crisis has come to dominate contemporary understandings of suffering and care: as that which will reach a critical turning point, while also being chronic and enduring. I analyze this temporal enigma through an ethnography of mental health care practitioners in the UK who see themselves as embedded in a crisis-stricken care system, yet attempt to reformulate their therapeutic approach to crisis in productive ways: to make "good" of crisis. I argue that their efforts to make good in and of the temporal interstices of crisis disclose care as temporally unstable as well as ethically ambivalent.

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UK, care, crisis, ethics, mental health, temporality, Anthropology, Cultural, Anthropology, Medical, Humans, Mental Health Services, United Kingdom

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Med Anthropol

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0145-9740
1545-5882

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Publisher

Informa UK Limited
Sponsorship
This research was funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [grant agreement 683033].