Joanne Hunt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3802190 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanne Hunt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Hunt |
| SIGNATURE | HUNT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3868-5765 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Epistemic injustice, healthcare disparities and the missing pipeline
People with disabilities are subject to multiple forms of health-related and wider social disparities; carefully focused research is required to inform more inclusive, safe and effective healthcare practice and policy. Through lived experience, disabled people are well positioned to identify and persistently pursue problems and opportunities within existing health provisions that may be overlooked by a largely non-disabled research community. Thu…
Re-visiting professional ethics in psychotherapy
Following years of debate over the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), public health bodies in the UK and beyond have determined that no psychotherapy is clinically proven for this patient group. In the field of ME/CFS and the wider arena of ‘medically unexplained symptoms’ (MUS), patient survey data and qualitative research capturing patient experiences and psychotherapi…
Intersectionality, healthcare and myalgic encephalomyelitis
Healthcare practice and policy impacting disabled groups has historically reduced disability to an individual phenomenon and homogenised experiences of disability. Such practices – which lack cultural and structural sensitivity – risk not only individualising, pathologising and responsibilising social oppressions tied to disability, but also erasing multiply marginalised experiences, knowledges and needs within any given disabled group. Moreover,…
Understanding disability/impairment, inclusively
Whilst myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) has recently attracted high-profile media coverage, dominant accounts do not tell the whole story of how this group of disabled people came to occupy -albeit unequallysociety's fringes.This article, platforming some of the sidelined work of disabled activist-scholars, offers an understanding of oppressions confronting people with ME/CFS that is more inclusive of the politics impac…
Mapping the government of disability in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
People with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome have historically been conceptualised in health and social policy as “undeserving” of societal support, largely via a variant of biopsychosocial model charged with promoting multifaceted harms. Whilst scientific literature has been preoccupied by paradigm conflicts pertaining to (bio)psychosocial and biomedical models of disability, the socio-cultural and biopolitical context driving …
Will psychology ever ‘join hands’ with disability studies? Opportunities and challenges in working towards structurally competent and disability-affirmative psychotherapy for energy limiting condition…
Despite sustained efforts among critically informed scholars to integrate thinking from disability studies into psychology, the psy disciplines continue to largely neglect the lived experience of disabled people and overlook disability as a form of social inequity and valued culture. In this article, I make a renewed case for integrating thinking from disability studies into psy, in particular within the psychotherapy professions and in the case …
Toward the emancipation of “medically unexplained” and energy-limiting conditions
Indictment of hegemonic psy construction of the “ideal” subject, and its marginalisation of the Other, is common to both feminism and (critical, feminist) disability studies. However, feminist literature largely lacks both an appreciation of the gendered, intersectional nature of disability as constituted and propagated by psy, and an exploration of how integrating disability as a category of analysis can strengthen critical feminist endeavours t…
Inheriting discriminatory socio-political landscapes as ‘undeserving’ disabled people
The UK government's recent announcement that the highly controversial Work Capability Assessment (WCA) will likely be abolished leaves questions of what precisely will emerge in its place. This commentary revisits a construct central to the attempted justification of the WCA, that of ‘common health problems’, which may well continue to leave a legacy in delineating purported ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ impairment, ill-health and related disabil…
The psycho-emotionally disabling impact of academic landscapes of exclusion
Examining the psychology of practitioners, institutions and structures
‘Medically unexplained symptoms’ (MUS), through the lens of the biopsychosocial model, are understood in mainstream psy disciplines and related literature as a primarily psychosocial phenomenon perpetuated by ‘dysfunctional’ psychology on the part of people labelled with such. Biopsychosocial discourse and practice in this field, underpinned by little empirical foundation and lacking theoretical coherency, are associated with harms sustained by p…
Making space for disability studies within a structurally competent medical curriculum
While critically informed approaches to medical education are increasingly advocated in literature, discussion of the potential role of disability studies in informing pedagogy and practice is largely lacking. The emergence of long Covid, alongside the strong possibility of a wave of covid-related disability, underlines an urgent need for medicine to develop more contextualised, nuanced and structurally competent understandings of chronic illness…
Holistic or harmful? Examining socio-structural factors in the biopsychosocial model of chronic illness, ‘medically unexplained symptoms’ and disability
A particular application of the biopsychosocial model is associated in peer-reviewed literature and patient testimony with harms done to chronically ill and disabled people. These harms derive from an empirically unsubstantiated, neoliberal narrative emphasising the role of personal responsibility and effort in ‘recovery’ from ill-health, ignoring socio-structural contributors to chronic illness and disability. Notably, this biopsychosocial model…
Long Covid at the crossroads
Whilst parallels have been drawn between Long Covid and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), there is a well-documented history of negative stereotyping and marginalisation of patients with ME/CFS. A socio-politically oriented comparison of scientific, clinical and societal responses to Long Covid and ME/CFS is thus important to prevent similar harms arising among Long Covid patients. We identify four reasons for injustice…
European section
The effect of variations in quality and type of early child care on development
Variations in the quality and type of infant care in institutional and other settings in different cultures and social classes can have profound influences with important implications for long-term development on the child's rate, level, and type of cognitive development
The Kurt Lewin Memorial Award Presentation by The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues to Milton Rokeach
Orval Hobart Mowrer (1907-1982)
Orval Hobart Mowrer (1907-1982)
Black genes—white environment
Holistic or harmful? Examining socio-structural factors in the biopsychosocial model of chronic illness, ‘medically unexplained symptoms’ and disability
A particular application of the biopsychosocial model is associated in peer-reviewed literature and patient testimony with harms done to chronically ill and disabled people. These harms derive from an empirically unsubstantiated, neoliberal narrative emphasising the role of personal responsibility and effort in ‘recovery’ from ill-health, ignoring socio-structural contributors to chronic illness and disability. Notably, this biopsychosocial model…
Toward the emancipation of “medically unexplained” and energy-limiting conditions
Indictment of hegemonic psy construction of the “ideal” subject, and its marginalisation of the Other, is common to both feminism and (critical, feminist) disability studies. However, feminist literature largely lacks both an appreciation of the gendered, intersectional nature of disability as constituted and propagated by psy, and an exploration of how integrating disability as a category of analysis can strengthen critical feminist endeavours t…
Long Covid at the crossroads
Whilst parallels have been drawn between Long Covid and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), there is a well-documented history of negative stereotyping and marginalisation of patients with ME/CFS. A socio-politically oriented comparison of scientific, clinical and societal responses to Long Covid and ME/CFS is thus important to prevent similar harms arising among Long Covid patients. We identify four reasons for injustice…
Making space for disability studies within a structurally competent medical curriculum
While critically informed approaches to medical education are increasingly advocated in literature, discussion of the potential role of disability studies in informing pedagogy and practice is largely lacking. The emergence of long Covid, alongside the strong possibility of a wave of covid-related disability, underlines an urgent need for medicine to develop more contextualised, nuanced and structurally competent understandings of chronic illness…
Inheriting discriminatory socio-political landscapes as ‘undeserving’ disabled people
The UK government's recent announcement that the highly controversial Work Capability Assessment (WCA) will likely be abolished leaves questions of what precisely will emerge in its place. This commentary revisits a construct central to the attempted justification of the WCA, that of ‘common health problems’, which may well continue to leave a legacy in delineating purported ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ impairment, ill-health and related disabil…
The psycho-emotionally disabling impact of academic landscapes of exclusion
Black genes—white environment
Orval Hobart Mowrer (1907-1982)
Orval Hobart Mowrer (1907-1982)
The Kurt Lewin Memorial Award Presentation by The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues to Milton Rokeach
The effect of variations in quality and type of early child care on development
Variations in the quality and type of infant care in institutional and other settings in different cultures and social classes can have profound influences with important implications for long-term development on the child's rate, level, and type of cognitive development
European section
Examining the psychology of practitioners, institutions and structures
‘Medically unexplained symptoms’ (MUS), through the lens of the biopsychosocial model, are understood in mainstream psy disciplines and related literature as a primarily psychosocial phenomenon perpetuated by ‘dysfunctional’ psychology on the part of people labelled with such. Biopsychosocial discourse and practice in this field, underpinned by little empirical foundation and lacking theoretical coherency, are associated with harms sustained by p…
Making space for disability studies within a structurally competent medical curriculum
While critically informed approaches to medical education are increasingly advocated in literature, discussion of the potential role of disability studies in informing pedagogy and practice is largely lacking. The emergence of long Covid, alongside the strong possibility of a wave of covid-related disability, underlines an urgent need for medicine to develop more contextualised, nuanced and structurally competent understandings of chronic illness…
Holistic or harmful? Examining socio-structural factors in the biopsychosocial model of chronic illness, ‘medically unexplained symptoms’ and disability
A particular application of the biopsychosocial model is associated in peer-reviewed literature and patient testimony with harms done to chronically ill and disabled people. These harms derive from an empirically unsubstantiated, neoliberal narrative emphasising the role of personal responsibility and effort in ‘recovery’ from ill-health, ignoring socio-structural contributors to chronic illness and disability. Notably, this biopsychosocial model…
Long Covid at the crossroads
Whilst parallels have been drawn between Long Covid and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), there is a well-documented history of negative stereotyping and marginalisation of patients with ME/CFS. A socio-politically oriented comparison of scientific, clinical and societal responses to Long Covid and ME/CFS is thus important to prevent similar harms arising among Long Covid patients. We identify four reasons for injustice…
The psycho-emotionally disabling impact of academic landscapes of exclusion
Will psychology ever ‘join hands’ with disability studies? Opportunities and challenges in working towards structurally competent and disability-affirmative psychotherapy for energy limiting condition…
Despite sustained efforts among critically informed scholars to integrate thinking from disability studies into psychology, the psy disciplines continue to largely neglect the lived experience of disabled people and overlook disability as a form of social inequity and valued culture. In this article, I make a renewed case for integrating thinking from disability studies into psy, in particular within the psychotherapy professions and in the case …
Toward the emancipation of “medically unexplained” and energy-limiting conditions
Indictment of hegemonic psy construction of the “ideal” subject, and its marginalisation of the Other, is common to both feminism and (critical, feminist) disability studies. However, feminist literature largely lacks both an appreciation of the gendered, intersectional nature of disability as constituted and propagated by psy, and an exploration of how integrating disability as a category of analysis can strengthen critical feminist endeavours t…
Inheriting discriminatory socio-political landscapes as ‘undeserving’ disabled people
The UK government's recent announcement that the highly controversial Work Capability Assessment (WCA) will likely be abolished leaves questions of what precisely will emerge in its place. This commentary revisits a construct central to the attempted justification of the WCA, that of ‘common health problems’, which may well continue to leave a legacy in delineating purported ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ impairment, ill-health and related disabil…
Understanding disability/impairment, inclusively
Whilst myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) has recently attracted high-profile media coverage, dominant accounts do not tell the whole story of how this group of disabled people came to occupy -albeit unequallysociety's fringes.This article, platforming some of the sidelined work of disabled activist-scholars, offers an understanding of oppressions confronting people with ME/CFS that is more inclusive of the politics impac…
Mapping the government of disability in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
People with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome have historically been conceptualised in health and social policy as “undeserving” of societal support, largely via a variant of biopsychosocial model charged with promoting multifaceted harms. Whilst scientific literature has been preoccupied by paradigm conflicts pertaining to (bio)psychosocial and biomedical models of disability, the socio-cultural and biopolitical context driving …
Epistemic injustice, healthcare disparities and the missing pipeline
People with disabilities are subject to multiple forms of health-related and wider social disparities; carefully focused research is required to inform more inclusive, safe and effective healthcare practice and policy. Through lived experience, disabled people are well positioned to identify and persistently pursue problems and opportunities within existing health provisions that may be overlooked by a largely non-disabled research community. Thu…
Re-visiting professional ethics in psychotherapy
Following years of debate over the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), public health bodies in the UK and beyond have determined that no psychotherapy is clinically proven for this patient group. In the field of ME/CFS and the wider arena of ‘medically unexplained symptoms’ (MUS), patient survey data and qualitative research capturing patient experiences and psychotherapi…
Intersectionality, healthcare and myalgic encephalomyelitis
Healthcare practice and policy impacting disabled groups has historically reduced disability to an individual phenomenon and homogenised experiences of disability. Such practices – which lack cultural and structural sensitivity – risk not only individualising, pathologising and responsibilising social oppressions tied to disability, but also erasing multiply marginalised experiences, knowledges and needs within any given disabled group. Moreover,…
Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Reflexivity (5 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (4 works) · Disability studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)