Dan Degerman – författare

This book deploys concepts and insights from philosophy of psychiatry, phenomenology, and social epistemology to elucidate the role of silence in the lives of individuals with mental disorder. It contends that lived experiences of silence play underappreciated and vital roles in the lives of many people with mental disorders, and that a better understanding of these roles could enhance mental healthcare and policy.Despite the importance of silence in relation to mental health, empirically orientated mental health professionals and researchers have paid little attention to lived experiences of silence. Philosophers of medicine and medical humanities scholars, meanwhile, have neglected silence generally. Drawing on first-hand accounts of individuals with depression and bipolar disorder from different genders and ethnicities, this book sheds light on the variety and meaning of the silences that people with such disorders experience. The book develops a taxonomy of such silences based on their phenomenological structure, which is then used to suggest improvements to mental healthcare practice, policy, and activism. Among other things, it shows that a better understanding of silences in mental disorder can help us identify and nurture instances of silence that support recovery.Silence in Mood Disorders will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of psychiatry, phenomenology, disability studies, and the medical humanities.

This book explores negative emotions like anger, fear and grief as important drivers of political action. It examines how treating these feelings as medical problems affects society. Drawing on the political thought of Hannah Arendt, the book develops an original understanding of political emotions as fragile and vulnerable to attacks disputing their relevance to public life. It presents and analyses four case studies of emotional politics in the UK, ranging from assertions that UKIP supporters were emotionally primitive to diagnoses of anxiety disorder in the Brexit referendum's aftermath. It demonstrates how ideas of emotion and mental disorder might be used to both empower and disempower people politically.

This book explores negative emotions like anger, fear and grief as important drivers of political action. It examines how treating these feelings as medical problems affects society. Drawing on the political thought of Hannah Arendt, the book develops an original understanding of political emotions as fragile and vulnerable to attacks disputing their relevance to public life. It presents and analyses four case studies of emotional politics in the UK, ranging from assertions that UKIP supporters were emotionally primitive to diagnoses of anxiety disorder in the Brexit referendum's aftermath. It demonstrates how ideas of emotion and mental disorder might be used to both empower and disempower people politically.

Negative emotions, including anger, fear, and shame, have been at the heart of recent political events, such as the protests against COVID-19 restrictions. These negative emotions can be politically destructive, leading people to act rashly without due concern for democratic principles. However, they can also accurately signal wrongdoing and motivate acts to redress the situation, as displayed in the Black Lives Matter and climate change movements. This volume brings together perspectives from political science and philosophy to shed new light on the political faces of negative emotions. Engaging with real-world political events from Europe, the US, and Africa, contributors critically evaluate much-discussed emotions, such as anger and fear, but also less prominent ones, such as frustration and discomfort.