Suze G Berkhout
Biographic Data
| ID | 667538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suze G Berkhout |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suze G |
| FAMILY NAME | Berkhout |
| SIGNATURE | BERKHOUT S G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8827-3489 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Psychosomatic Futurities
This paper explores the ways in which cultural psychiatry can contribute to the understanding of the larger culture of medicine, through critical engagements with dualisms that structure medicine's curative imaginary—a social imaginary that positions disability as a deviation, a tragedy, and a problem to be solved. Developed as an experimental form of image/text analysis from a sensory ethnographic study of solid organ transplantation and drawing…
Illustrating neurological disabilities
Amid the rise of image-based social media, digitally circulated visual artefacts now dominate contemporary public health conversations. However, infographics and similar materials are more than just channels for clinical discussions; they perform healthcare roles, embodying the clinician's function to promote certain behaviours, prevent others and shape the material reality of a 'healthy' subject. The infographic as a material-discursive agent is…
Out of Focus
Embodied dimensions of treatment resistance (TR) are challenging to delineate. • A diffractive methodology can help generate different ways of knowing. • Digital storytelling is a valuable tool to complicate illness narratives. • Lived experiences of TR traverse conventional notions of a unitary self and time. • TR becomes intelligible through intra-actions and entanglements
Troubling Transplant Temporality through Crip Technoscience and a Sensory Aesthetics of Time, Machine, and Health
Taking up technologies that act as a “bridge” to transplant, we explore what the lifeworlds of a transplant patient and their loved ones interacting with these technologies tells us about the temporality of transplantation and the imperative of cure.By engaging with clinical literature and practices, transdisciplinary crip technoscience theorizing, and multimodal, multisensory artistic form, we bring together sick and disabled people’s expertise …
Introduction
Transplant medicine is frequently hailed as a pinnacle of biomedical achievement. Curative imaginaries in the field often situate transplant as a cure and a return to health, producing bifurcated temporalities of before and after transplant and proposing futures that erase disability and disabled bodies. This Special Section centers the frictions in transplant temporalities, offering examinations of how transplant troubles the binaries of life an…
Treatment resistance in schizophrenia and depression as an interactive kind
Despite ongoing attempts to delineate and name treatment resistance (TR) in psychiatry, the term is increasingly deployed across diagnostic categories. Still, what it is that constitutes TR remains unclear and in flux. Through a meta-narrative review, we construct a sociohistorical map of the concept of TR as it is employed in schizophrenia (TRS) and major depressive disorders (TRD). We track debates about TR, identify underlying assumptions and …
Surface and Depth in Sensory Ethnography
Arts-based research can provide pivotal avenues for researchers and participants to explore experiences that are difficult to put into words. Arts-based methods offer important opportunities for participants to develop reflexive understanding through material interaction with art and mark-making supplies. While sensorial and embodied experiences are entangled with arts-based methods, there is little methodological and theoretical work that puts a…
Bringing Intersectionality to the Fore in Covid-19
Dwelling with Multiplicity
This paper explores intersections of cure, harm, diagnostic practices, and lifeworlds of mental disability within the field of first episode psychosis. Drawing on findings from a collaborative art workshop developed within an ethnographic study of first episode psychosis, we contrast the experience and phenomenology of psychosis within the art workshops with the construction of psychosis in traditional clinical spaces. Engaging concepts of dwelli…
Digital Self-Monitoring, Bodied Realities
Smartphone technology has seen expanding interest across nearly all areas of medicine, including psychiatry. This paper discusses the burgeoning use of digital technologies for symptom monitoring in the field of first episode psychosis. Drawing on Foucauldian theory as well as intersectional feminist materialist and critical disabilities scholarship in science and technology studies (STS), we trace a novel landscape of technologies of the self. W…
Carceral Politics, Inpatient Psychiatry, and the Pandemic
In this paper, we discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic offers a particularly salient moment in which to identify and reflect on shifts in psychiatric carcerality in highly concrete ways. Drawing from our own professional and practical experience as in-patient (acute-care) psychiatrists implementing changes in ward policies in light of infection control concerns and linking this experience with insights and tensions between Mad Studies, Critical Pris…
Identity, politics, and the pandemic
Identity, Subjectivity, and Disorders of Self in Psychosis
Paradigm shift? Purity, progress and the origins of first-episode psychosis
First-episode psychosis has garnered significant attention and resources within mental health services in North America, Europe and Australia/New Zealand since the 1990s. Despite this widespread embrace, little scholarship exists that examines underlying concepts, ideologies and imagery embedded within the early intervention paradigm. In this paper, I offer a sociohistorical analysis of the emergence of first-episode psychosis and early intervent…
Private talk
Anonymity is accepted as necessary for the generation of empirical knowledge concerning human research participants, especially for members of “vulnerable” groups. In particular, anonymity has been given a role in easing the challenges of giving voice to experiences that disrupt familiar and convenient paradigms of knowledge. This paper troubles such a notion, on the grounds that anonymity may undermine the acceptance of such experiences as evide…
Buns in the Oven
Identity, politics, and the pandemic
Surface and Depth in Sensory Ethnography
Arts-based research can provide pivotal avenues for researchers and participants to explore experiences that are difficult to put into words. Arts-based methods offer important opportunities for participants to develop reflexive understanding through material interaction with art and mark-making supplies. While sensorial and embodied experiences are entangled with arts-based methods, there is little methodological and theoretical work that puts a…
Dwelling with Multiplicity
This paper explores intersections of cure, harm, diagnostic practices, and lifeworlds of mental disability within the field of first episode psychosis. Drawing on findings from a collaborative art workshop developed within an ethnographic study of first episode psychosis, we contrast the experience and phenomenology of psychosis within the art workshops with the construction of psychosis in traditional clinical spaces. Engaging concepts of dwelli…
Buns in the Oven
Private talk
Anonymity is accepted as necessary for the generation of empirical knowledge concerning human research participants, especially for members of “vulnerable” groups. In particular, anonymity has been given a role in easing the challenges of giving voice to experiences that disrupt familiar and convenient paradigms of knowledge. This paper troubles such a notion, on the grounds that anonymity may undermine the acceptance of such experiences as evide…
Paradigm shift? Purity, progress and the origins of first-episode psychosis
First-episode psychosis has garnered significant attention and resources within mental health services in North America, Europe and Australia/New Zealand since the 1990s. Despite this widespread embrace, little scholarship exists that examines underlying concepts, ideologies and imagery embedded within the early intervention paradigm. In this paper, I offer a sociohistorical analysis of the emergence of first-episode psychosis and early intervent…
Identity, Subjectivity, and Disorders of Self in Psychosis
Identity, politics, and the pandemic
Digital Self-Monitoring, Bodied Realities
Smartphone technology has seen expanding interest across nearly all areas of medicine, including psychiatry. This paper discusses the burgeoning use of digital technologies for symptom monitoring in the field of first episode psychosis. Drawing on Foucauldian theory as well as intersectional feminist materialist and critical disabilities scholarship in science and technology studies (STS), we trace a novel landscape of technologies of the self. W…
Carceral Politics, Inpatient Psychiatry, and the Pandemic
In this paper, we discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic offers a particularly salient moment in which to identify and reflect on shifts in psychiatric carcerality in highly concrete ways. Drawing from our own professional and practical experience as in-patient (acute-care) psychiatrists implementing changes in ward policies in light of infection control concerns and linking this experience with insights and tensions between Mad Studies, Critical Pris…
Bringing Intersectionality to the Fore in Covid-19
Dwelling with Multiplicity
This paper explores intersections of cure, harm, diagnostic practices, and lifeworlds of mental disability within the field of first episode psychosis. Drawing on findings from a collaborative art workshop developed within an ethnographic study of first episode psychosis, we contrast the experience and phenomenology of psychosis within the art workshops with the construction of psychosis in traditional clinical spaces. Engaging concepts of dwelli…
Troubling Transplant Temporality through Crip Technoscience and a Sensory Aesthetics of Time, Machine, and Health
Taking up technologies that act as a “bridge” to transplant, we explore what the lifeworlds of a transplant patient and their loved ones interacting with these technologies tells us about the temporality of transplantation and the imperative of cure.By engaging with clinical literature and practices, transdisciplinary crip technoscience theorizing, and multimodal, multisensory artistic form, we bring together sick and disabled people’s expertise …
Introduction
Transplant medicine is frequently hailed as a pinnacle of biomedical achievement. Curative imaginaries in the field often situate transplant as a cure and a return to health, producing bifurcated temporalities of before and after transplant and proposing futures that erase disability and disabled bodies. This Special Section centers the frictions in transplant temporalities, offering examinations of how transplant troubles the binaries of life an…
Treatment resistance in schizophrenia and depression as an interactive kind
Despite ongoing attempts to delineate and name treatment resistance (TR) in psychiatry, the term is increasingly deployed across diagnostic categories. Still, what it is that constitutes TR remains unclear and in flux. Through a meta-narrative review, we construct a sociohistorical map of the concept of TR as it is employed in schizophrenia (TRS) and major depressive disorders (TRD). We track debates about TR, identify underlying assumptions and …
Surface and Depth in Sensory Ethnography
Arts-based research can provide pivotal avenues for researchers and participants to explore experiences that are difficult to put into words. Arts-based methods offer important opportunities for participants to develop reflexive understanding through material interaction with art and mark-making supplies. While sensorial and embodied experiences are entangled with arts-based methods, there is little methodological and theoretical work that puts a…
Out of Focus
Embodied dimensions of treatment resistance (TR) are challenging to delineate. • A diffractive methodology can help generate different ways of knowing. • Digital storytelling is a valuable tool to complicate illness narratives. • Lived experiences of TR traverse conventional notions of a unitary self and time. • TR becomes intelligible through intra-actions and entanglements
Psychosomatic Futurities
This paper explores the ways in which cultural psychiatry can contribute to the understanding of the larger culture of medicine, through critical engagements with dualisms that structure medicine's curative imaginary—a social imaginary that positions disability as a deviation, a tragedy, and a problem to be solved. Developed as an experimental form of image/text analysis from a sensory ethnographic study of solid organ transplantation and drawing…
Illustrating neurological disabilities
Amid the rise of image-based social media, digitally circulated visual artefacts now dominate contemporary public health conversations. However, infographics and similar materials are more than just channels for clinical discussions; they perform healthcare roles, embodying the clinician's function to promote certain behaviours, prevent others and shape the material reality of a 'healthy' subject. The infographic as a material-discursive agent is…
Psychology (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (5 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (5 works)