Looking for co-author on digital mental health

Organisations Mad Studies Academy
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Dear all,

I am currently the sole author of a fully vouched (no processing fees) paper currently in the final stages of revision for publication in the MDPI Social Sciences (Q2) special issue on digital mental health. Paper pre-print: https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202406.0284/v2

The Academic Editor has requested improvements to the Introduction and Methods sections, and I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to include a co-author who can help refine the paper during this final revision stage, as I am extremely hectic and a bit overwhelmed about the last revisions asked, even if are considered minor by the journal. Deadline for submitting the final paper is April. I am particularly looking for a collaborator with a solid background in mental health theory and methodology, to complement my experience as a medical anthropologist who has conducted fieldwork on this topic over the past few years. Additionally, I aim to strengthen the future-oriented perspective of the paper, incorporating next steps and actionable insights for EU-wide implementation. I would love to co-author with someone active in digital mental health, also willing to take next steps together and keep on researching the topic.

Best regards,

Henning (né Enric) Garcia Torrents

University professor in training, Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, Spain Medical Anthropology Research Center, Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Book a Meeting: https://calendar.app.google/9YBTGk2iu1c9K3ij7

Main project summary: Gestión colaborativa de la medicación en casos de salud mental - Proyecto de investigación-acción

Laboratory and field open science notebook: https://research.enricgarcia.md

Last publication: Torrents, E.G., Björkdahl, A. (2024). Alternatives to Coercion. In: Hallett, N., Whittington, R., Richter, D., Eneje, E. (eds) Coercion and Violence in Mental Health Settings. Springer-Nature, Cham. Alternatives to Coercion | SpringerLink

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Alternatives to Coercion In this chapter, the authors critically examine the historical and contemporary use of restraint in mental health care and advocate for more humane, patient-centred alternatives. The authors consider the detrimental effects of coercive practices on patients… (Alternatives to Coercion | SpringerLink)

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Hi! There is now a hub called Mad Studies Academy here on Science and Academia, for alternative perspectives on health care etc. It’s listed under Organizations and is meant to be precisely “a place for coalition building, for people to meet up, exchange ideas, ask for input on work in progress, or to find others to collaborate with on future projects”. Feel free to tag this post in that channel too. :slight_smile:

Personally I am a philosophy PhD candidate and clinical psychologist and hence could not help with methodological concerns regarding empirical data. Theory and conceptual work however is more up my alley.

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Lovely, thank you! I did not know there is a Mad Studies Academy in IGDORE. I am also working on a paper for the International Mad Studies Journal special call on Transmad research, covering the intersectionality of inter-sex and transgender with madness and the mental health system. My work is on the violence suffered by the collective and other groups, both in the institutional setting, the domestic one and the broader societal with diagnoses weaponized to hurt silence and marginalize, iatrogenic re-traumatizing practices and other problems. Other than this, I am conducting fieldwork in Indonesia to end what here is called pasung, the restrain and seclusion of people in domestic and community settings, still quite often even with chains and sadly for life if nothing is done to impede it. There is an ongoing governmental campaign to end the practice. Happy to connect with you and other members of the Mad Studies Academy.

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Thanks for all this info! (And sorry for slow response, I’ve been been down with the flu or something.) Good to hear about your work on transmad research and all the rest! But awful to read up on the concept of pasung… I will have a paper out in the IMSJ soon, I think. It’ll be a follow-up conference volume from the Mad People’s Coping Mechanisms conference in 2023.

Keep posting about projects here, very good to connect!