Research Handbook on Society and Mental Health

Edited by Marta Elliott, Professor of Sociology, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

• Contents:Introduction to Research Handbook on Society and Mental Health xvMarta Elliott1 The historical legacy of the sociology of mental health 1Allan V. Horwitz2 Seekers and providers: medicalization of circumstantial sadness and fear 20Sigita Doblytė3 Bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder or borderlinebipolar? Negotiating the blurred boundaries between psychosocial andbiomedical categories 34Rhiannon Lane4 The digital forces of medicalization: the role of apps for mental health 53Antonio Maturo and Marta Gibin5 Obscuring air pollution and pesticides’ contribution to depression: therole of the Canadian and New Zealand governments 66Manuel Vallée6 Refugee mental health: differential trauma exposure and genderedexpectations as explanatory mechanisms for disparities 82Jessica R. Goodkind, Julia Meredith Hess, Ryeora Choe, Yuka Doherty,Meredith A. Blackwell, David T. Lardier, and Deborah I. Bybee7 Stratified access to care and mental health implications for pregnant andpostpartum immigrants in the US‒Mexico border region 101Victoria De Anda and Carina Heckert8 Racial identity and the racial paradox in mental health 115Michael Hughes, K. Jill Kiecolt, and Verna M. Keith9 Does racial identity buffer against poor mental health among BlackAmericans? Examining everyday discrimination and the nexus ofethnicity and nativity 136Dawne M. Mouzon, Breanna D. Brock, Ebony D. Johnson, and Thalya Reyes10 Beyond immigrant generation: religious approach, perceptions ofdiscrimination, and the stress process model 159Sarah Shah11 Stigma visibility and mental health among lesbians and gay men 176Michael J. Doane and Marta Elliott12 Disability, ableism, and mental health 201Robyn Lewis Brown and Gabriele Ciciurkaite13 The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on stress: a cross-nationalanalysis of economic and public health policies and individual characteristics 218James M. Ragsdale, Megan LaMotte, and Marta Elliott14 School shootings: the social dynamics of mental disorder 233Anne Nassauer15 The social epidemiology of adverse childhood experiences 251Heather A. Turner and Deirdre A. Colburn16 Police violence and mental health: the uncharted empirical inquiry ofa long-standing societal problem 268Jonathan Marsh, Dania Lerman, Jordan DeVylder, and Lisa Fedina17 Impact of relationship to the perpetrator and self-blame on collegewomen’s well-being following sexual assault 289Ann E. Jones18 The bitter and the sweet revisited: religious resources, spiritualstruggles, and psychological distress 306Christopher G. Ellison and Kevin J. Flannelly19 College student mental health: current trends and implications forhigher education 325Sasha Zhou and Daniel Eisenberg20 Coping with the “pains of imprisonment”: the interaction ofinstitutional conditions and individual experiences on inmate mental health 348Timothy G. Edgemon21 The impact of stigma on the well-being of people diagnosed withmental illness: why stigma persists and why it remains consequential 366Jason Schnittker22 Understanding inequity in mental health care: the role of discriminationin providing and experiencing care 382Annahita Ehsan, Charlotte Woodhead, Preety Das, Rebecca Rhead andStephani L. Hatch23 Trans men’s access to and discrimination in mental healthcare in theSoutheastern United States 409Baker A. Rogers and Austin H. Johnson24 Beyond psychoanalysis: psychodynamic psychotherapy in a biomedicaland behavioral world 428Dena T. Smith25 Withdrawal, not relapse: analysis of an online forum for people comingoff antidepressant medications 445Pınar Üstel26 Open Dialogue approach to treating serious mental illness 461Rhoshel K. Lenroot, Marcello A. Maviglia, Ming Tai-Seale, and Douglas Ziedonis27 Community-based mental health care 482René KeetIndex

‘This superb volume, edited by Marta Elliott, offers a rich and distinctly sociological exploration of classic and contemporary topics in mental health research. The authors, including emerging and eminent scholars, address core topics like stigma and medicalization as well as the mental impacts of contemporary crises like COVID-19 and environmental threats. Scholars, practitioners, and policy makers alike have much to learn from this collection.’