Digital Self-Monitoring, Bodied Realities

Re-Casting App-Based Technologies in First Episode Psychosis

Bibliographic Data

ID22126554
AuthorsSuze G Berkhout (0000-0002-8827-3489, University Health Network), Juveria Zaheer (0000-0001-5071-8078, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health)
Year2021
Volume7
Issue1
Publication date2021-04-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCatalyst Feminism Theory Technoscience (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2380-3312 • E-ISSN: 2380-3312
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Libraries - UOTL (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.28968/cftt.v7i1.34101
OpenAlexW3156003087
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited22

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. We explore the discursive strategies that position first episode psychosis and digital technology as progressive, curative paradigms and utilize our own ethnographic work within the field of first episode psychosis to consider how lived experience is transformed within and through digital technologies. We trouble the unfettered enthusiasm for digital technologies in first episode psychosis in light of how these transformations can be understood within a larger neoliberal political rationality and demarcate the importance of having intersectional feminist STS scholarship attend to this burgeoning field

Emerging technologies · Enthusiasm · Epistemology · Materialism · Political science · Psychiatry · Psychosis · Scholarship · Sociology · Computer Science · Law · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychology · Schizophrenia research and treatment · Social Psychology

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