Lucy Costa
Biographic Data
| ID | 6844138 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucy Costa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucy |
| FAMILY NAME | Costa |
| SIGNATURE | COSTA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Empowerment Program |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Women’s Forensic Mental Health Care: The Need for Gender-Based Analysis
This paper critically interrogates the increasingly popular framework of Gender-based Analysis (GBA) in Canada, as it relates to psychiatry more broadly, and forensic psychiatry more specifically. Through a critical feminist and Mad Studies analysis, we argue that if GBA is to be anything more than rhetoric, it is necessary to ground policies and practices in the knowledge generated by women and service-users themselves. We further point to Mad S…
Madness, Violence, and Power: A Critical Collection
(W)righting women: Constructions of gender, sexuality and race in the psychiatric chart
This paper examines the interpretative nature of psychiatry in relation to gender, sexuality and race within the particular time and place of one urban, Canadian, clinical psychiatric setting. We bring women's psychiatric inpatient charts and a critical feminist perspective into dialogue in an effort to focus on gender, sexuality and race in psychiatric narratives on women's madness. The research used a qualitative, retrospective research design …
Recovering our Stories”: A Small Act of Resistance
This paper describes a community event organized in response to the appropriation and overreliance on the psychiatric patient “personal story” within mental health organizations. The sharing of experiences through stories by individuals who self-identify as having “lived experience” has been central to the history of organizing for change in and outside of the psychiatric system. However, in the last decade, personal stories have increasingly bee…
Recovering our Stories”: A Small Act of Resistance
This paper describes a community event organized in response to the appropriation and overreliance on the psychiatric patient “personal story” within mental health organizations. The sharing of experiences through stories by individuals who self-identify as having “lived experience” has been central to the history of organizing for change in and outside of the psychiatric system. However, in the last decade, personal stories have increasingly bee…
(W)righting women: Constructions of gender, sexuality and race in the psychiatric chart
This paper examines the interpretative nature of psychiatry in relation to gender, sexuality and race within the particular time and place of one urban, Canadian, clinical psychiatric setting. We bring women's psychiatric inpatient charts and a critical feminist perspective into dialogue in an effort to focus on gender, sexuality and race in psychiatric narratives on women's madness. The research used a qualitative, retrospective research design …
Recovering our Stories”: A Small Act of Resistance
This paper describes a community event organized in response to the appropriation and overreliance on the psychiatric patient “personal story” within mental health organizations. The sharing of experiences through stories by individuals who self-identify as having “lived experience” has been central to the history of organizing for change in and outside of the psychiatric system. However, in the last decade, personal stories have increasingly bee…
Madness, Violence, and Power: A Critical Collection
Women’s Forensic Mental Health Care: The Need for Gender-Based Analysis
This paper critically interrogates the increasingly popular framework of Gender-based Analysis (GBA) in Canada, as it relates to psychiatry more broadly, and forensic psychiatry more specifically. Through a critical feminist and Mad Studies analysis, we argue that if GBA is to be anything more than rhetoric, it is necessary to ground policies and practices in the knowledge generated by women and service-users themselves. We further point to Mad S…
Psychology (4 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Mental health (2 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (2 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 works) · Appropriation (1 works)