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Hunt, Joanne E. 2023. “Contesting Oppressive Regimes of Truth: A Critical Feminist Re-examination of (bio)psychosocial Hegemony in the Field of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.” SocArXiv. August 10. doi:10.31235/osf.io/3g7kp.
CONTESTING (BIO)PSYCHOSOCIAL REGIMES OF TRUTH
J. E. HUNT
Abstract
Myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome, a disabling condition disproportionately affecting women, is predominantly clinically managed through a (bio)psychosocial lens with psychosocial-inspired therapies, criticised for facilitating social and epistemic injustice, psychological and physical harms.
Whilst most literature contesting (bio)psychosocial practices espouses a mainstream scientific perspective, politics and power relations undergirding psychosocial hegemony are better explicated through a critical lens.
This article re-examines the ascendancy of psychosocial therapies and related practices through a critical feminist psychology and Foucauldian lens, with a view to locating oppressive practices in their socio-political and cultural context and promoting dialogue on possibilities for positive social change.
Hunt, Joanne E. 2023. “Contesting Oppressive Regimes of Truth: A Critical Feminist Re-examination of (bio)psychosocial Hegemony in the Field of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.” SocArXiv. August 10. doi:10.31235/osf.io/3g7kp.
CONTESTING (BIO)PSYCHOSOCIAL REGIMES OF TRUTH
J. E. HUNT
Abstract
Myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome, a disabling condition disproportionately affecting women, is predominantly clinically managed through a (bio)psychosocial lens with psychosocial-inspired therapies, criticised for facilitating social and epistemic injustice, psychological and physical harms.
Whilst most literature contesting (bio)psychosocial practices espouses a mainstream scientific perspective, politics and power relations undergirding psychosocial hegemony are better explicated through a critical lens.
This article re-examines the ascendancy of psychosocial therapies and related practices through a critical feminist psychology and Foucauldian lens, with a view to locating oppressive practices in their socio-political and cultural context and promoting dialogue on possibilities for positive social change.