Ilana Mountian - Discourse, Drug Use, and Psychiatry
Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health
Mad in America
4.7 • 212 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Ilana Mountian is a researcher drawing on psychoanalytic, critical, decolonial, and feminist philosophies. She is the author of Cultural Ecstasies: Drugs, Gender, and the Social Imaginary, exploring discourses around drug use, gender, and drug policy. She is currently working on a book that will be published later this year by Routledge about otherness and mental health, focusing on immigration, drug use, and transsexuality.
Mountian is a member of the Discourse Unit, a group led by well-known critical psychologists Erica Burman and Ian Parker. The Discourse Unit is dedicated to providing teaching resources for qualitative and feminist work, producing radical academic work, and developing critical perspectives in action research.
In addition to her work as a researcher, Mountian is a psychoanalyst and a postdoctoral lecturer at the University of Sao Paulo Brazil and Manchester Metropolitan University.
In this interview, she discusses intersectionality and drug use, the disease model of addiction, psychiatric labels, and psychiatry's place in creating "otherness."
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Madden America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry, and social justice. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to the Madden America podcast. I'm Richard Sears, science writer for Mad in America, |
| 0:19.6 | here today with Dr. Ilana Mountain. |
| 0:21.8 | Dr. Mountain is the author of Cultural Ecstasies, Dr. Dr. Moutts, Gender, and the Social Imaginary, |
| 0:27.6 | an exploration of Discourses around drug use, gender, and drug policy. She's currently working on |
| 0:32.7 | a book that will be published later by Rutledge about otherness and mental health, focusing on immigration, drug |
| 0:38.8 | use, and transsexuality. Dr. Moutian is also a postdoctoral lecturer and researcher at the |
| 0:44.6 | University of Sao Paulo and Manchester Metropolitan University. Welcome, Dr. Moutin, and thank |
| 0:49.7 | you for making time to talk with us today. Thank you. So we're just going to jump right into the questions here. |
| 0:56.1 | So first, can you just tell us a bit about what brought you to this corner of the discipline? |
| 1:02.4 | How did you end up researching drug use and gender? |
| 1:06.7 | Well, I am also psychoanalyst, and I've started working there of drug use through a clinical practice in a treatment service. |
| 1:20.4 | So from there, I've done my master's degree. |
| 1:24.3 | This is in Brazil, in San Paulo, Brazil. |
| 1:26.9 | From there, I did my master's degree. This is in Brazil, in San Paulo, Brazil. From there, I did my master's degree |
| 1:28.8 | on reviews, focusing also and learning about the policies around reviews in Manchester, |
| 1:38.9 | in the UK, at Manchester Metropolitan University with Dr. David Skidmore. |
| 1:46.2 | And in 1998, I've met the group called Discourse Unit, which I am also a member, since then. |
| 1:58.2 | And this group was coordinated in IT is still coordinated by Ian Parker and Erica |
| 2:05.1 | Berman. Erica Berman was my supervisor for my PhD. And this is a group that works with |
| 2:13.6 | subjectivity, language, Foucautian studies, psychoanalysis, critical theories, |
| 2:21.1 | and feminist and post-colonial de-colonial theories. |
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