Seeking a (bio)politics of solidarity in difference: 'Medically unexplained' conditions and 'mental illness'
Abstract
People living with 'medically unexplained' health conditions, together with people labelled with 'mental illness', are subject to converging yet differentiated facets of normalising power/knowledge regimes, wherein psy and biopolitics play a central role. Drawing on lived experience of such biopolitics and tensions between and within these social movements, I seek to re-invigorate dialogue vis-a-vis a politics of solidarity in difference.
Citation
Hunt, J. (2025). Seeking a (bio)politics of solidarity in difference: 'Medically unexplained' conditions and 'mental illness', The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, 25 (1), pp. 22-32.