ABSTRACT

Upon being invited to pen a chapter for the Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health, I was immediately beset by two opposing feelings – pleasure (I was delighted to be part of this important undertaking) and discomfort over the title. A clarification about the latter: I hold that terms like ‘mental health’ are misnomers – moreover, a form of colonisation. Herein lies a clue about the nature this chapter.