Troubled Persons Industries

Martin Harbusch works at the University of Siegen and at the University of Hagen in Germany. His teaching and research address the sociology of mental health, with a specific focus on the use of categories of mental health and illness in contexts of social work. He also teaches Qualitative Methods at the University of Lüneburg, Germany.

“The book provides (possibly by accident) radical commentary on emergent forms of medico-industrial-state relations as well … . Indeed, it was the ability to give it such a reading that had the most effect on this reader and fully exposed the book’s value. Thus, though I recommend it to anyone interested in psychiatric hegemony … I also recommend it to every sociologist … . I found its observations and its implications traveled well beyond the parameters of psychiatrization … stunning.” (Robert Wade Kenny, Symbolic Interaction, February 2, 2023)

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. “Psychiatrisation” of School Children: Secondary School Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices on Mental Health and Illness.- Chapter 3. Governing Emotions in Schools.- Chapter 4. The ADHD “Industry”: The Psychiatrisation of the School System in Its Labour Market Context.- Chapter 4. The ADHD “Industry”: The Psychiatrisation of the School System in Its Labour Market Context.- Chapter 6. Psychiatric Expansion and the Rise of Workplace Mental Health Initiatives.- Chapter 7. Dramas of Medicalisation in Everyday Social Network Life.- Chapter 7. Dramas of Medicalisation in Everyday Social Network Life.- Chapter 9. The Psychiatric Surveillance of Pregnant Women and New Mothers.- Chapter 10. Experience, Morality and Accountability: Shaping the Landscape of “Sex Addiction” Through Lived Experience and Professional Knowledge.- Chapter 11. Psychiatric Categories and Technologies Behind the Wire: Case Notes From the North of Ireland.- Chapter 12. A Harmless Sort of Trouble: Community Policing in Rural Areas and the Narrative Construction of “Troubled” and “Troublesome” Individuals.- Chapter 13. Cannabis: Creating Troubled Persons…and Treating Them?.- Chapter 14. New Markets in Deviance, Professional Power and Practice in Post-Institutional Ireland.- Chapter 15. The Cultural Construction of Diagnostic Categories in Psychiatric Training and Practice in New Zealand.- Chapter 16. “I Was So Relieved When the Doctor Told Me I Had Schizophrenia” – Identity and Sense-Making of Psychiatric Labels.- Chapter 17. Conclusions.