Making Good of Crisis: Temporalities of Care in UK Mental Health Services.
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Wright, Fiona
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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
1545-5882
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Informa UK Limited
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This research was funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [grant agreement 683033].