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.

• 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.

“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)