Suffering and pain: Racialized immigrant women’s use of mental health services in Lethbridge, Alberta

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dc.contributor.authorParvin, Mst Shahina
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorMalacrida, Claudia
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-12T15:10:54Z
dc.date.available2021-07-12T15:10:54Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.degree.levelPh.Den_US
dc.descriptionNAen_US
dc.description.abstractDrawing on in-depth interviews with 13 racialized immigrant women, this research explores experiences of using mental health services in Lethbridge, Alberta. The women’s narratives serve as a thread linking psychiatric, neoliberal, colonial, patriarchal, and other power relations. The treatments focused on the women’s concerns as individualized; the resulting prescription of antidepressants and psychotherapy required self-colonization to relieve their pain, complicating several women’s experiences of using mental health services. Some women found medical interventions beneficial to their wellbeing, while others resisted psychiatric knowledge at various points because of the embodied suffering they faced, and their reliance on conflicting cultural beliefs and healing systems. By analyzing these women’s experiences, I offer a rethinking of the biomedical conceptualization of mental illness as a natural and universally occurring pathology. Ultimately, I argue that current framings of mental illness obscure the intersectional power relations that played an important role in contributing to these women’s distress.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNAen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5952
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.proquest.subjectWomen's studies [0453]en_US
dc.proquest.subjectSociology [0626]en_US
dc.proquest.subjectMental health [0347]en_US
dc.proquest.subjectWomen immigrants -- Canada -- Social conditionsen_US
dc.proquestyesNoen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Sociologyen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Sociologyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectRacialized immigrant women, social subordination, racism, colonization, patriarchal violence, suffering, mental illness, mental health servicesen_US
dc.subjectWomen immigrants -- Canadaen_US
dc.subjectRacism -- Canadaen_US
dc.subjectWomen -- Violence against -- Canadaen_US
dc.subjectWomen -- Mental health -- Canadaen_US
dc.subjectWomen -- Psychologyen_US
dc.subjectWomen immigrants -- Mental health -- Canadaen_US
dc.subjectDissertations, Academicen_US
dc.titleSuffering and pain: Racialized immigrant women’s use of mental health services in Lethbridge, Albertaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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