Narratives and Mental Health offers a forum for dialogue between the arts, humanities and other disciplines interested in mental health and well-being.
Narrative is a central tool for meaning-making. Yet, its relevance has long been sidelined in the mental health sector including psychiatry, clinical psychology, medicine and social work.
To explore the intersection of narratives and mental health, the peer-reviewed book series takes an interdisciplinary approach and accommodates studies which investigate, for one, the uses and usefulness, but also the possible limitations of narrative in mental health care settings. The series is also very interested in studies that examine mental health issues in the representation, conceptualization, medialization and dissemination of mental health-narratives in areas as varied as literature and life-writing, the arts and film, journalism and (oral) history, digital and graphic storytelling, and many more.
Monographs and themed volumes are invited that include perspectives from comparative literary studies, history, narratology, psychology and philosophy, amongst others.
Series editors Jarmila Mildorf,
University of Paderborn, Germany Elisabeth Punzi,
University of Gothenburg, Sweden Christoph Singer,
University of Innsbruck, Austria Cornelia Wächter,
TU Dresden, Germany
Editorial board Ann Burack-Weiss,
Columbia University, USA Daniel McCann,
Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany China Mills,
City University of London, UK Cecilia Petterson,
University of Gothenburg, Sweden Geoffrey Reaume,
York University, Canada Katrin Röder,
University of Potsdam, Germany Linda Steele,
University of Technology Sydney, Australia Sara Strauss,
University of Paderborn, Germany
Advisory board Daniel D. Hutto,
University of Wollongong, Australia Daniel Ketteler,
Berlin School of Medicine, Germany Matthew Ratcliffe,
The University of York, UK Brian Schiff,
The American University of Paris, France