Table Of ContentSTRATEGIC INTERVENTIONS IN
MENTAL HEALTH RHETORIC
Offering rhetorically informed strategic interventions, this innovative collec-
tion moves beyond critiques of mental health issues, problems, and care. With
sections that focus on methodological, cultural and legal, and pedagogical in-
terventions, readers will find an engaging discussion of a discrete mental health
phenomenon as well as a clear interventional takeaway in each chapter.
Contributors make use of critical discourse analyses, ethnographic inquiries,
autoethnographic inquiries, case studies, and textual analyses to engage such
mental health research topics as postpartum depression among Chinese moth-
ers; insanity pleas; anosognosia; issues of intimacy, access, and embodiment in
research projects; community support groups; Black mental health; women in
Alcoholics Anonymous; and mental health in faculty workshops and univer-
sity online health tools. The authors and editors create scholarship on mental
health that explicitly builds productive methodological, theoretical, and prac-
tical bridges among scholars and teachers in the various specialties of writing
and communication.
This collection will interest scholars, students, and practitioners in health
and medical humanities; rhetoric of health and medicine; health communica-
tion; medical anthropology; scientific and technical communication; disability
studies; and rhetorical studies generally.
Lisa Melonçon is Professor of Technical Communication at the University of
South Florida. She specializes in rhetoric of health and medicine and disability
studies.
Cathryn Molloy is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
in James Madison University’s School of Writing, Rhetoric and Technical
Communication.
STRATEGIC
INTERVENTIONS IN
MENTAL HEALTH
RHETORIC
Edited by
Lisa Melonçon and
Cathryn Molloy
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Names: Meloncon, Lisa K., editor. | Molloy, Cathryn, editor.
Title: Strategic interventions in mental health rhetoric /
edited by Lisa Melonçon and Cathryn Molloy.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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LCCN 2021040341 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367701581 (hardback) |
ISBN 9780367697600 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003144854 (ebook)
Subjects: MESH: Psychosocial Intervention | Sociological Factors |
Mental Health
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NLM WM 420.5.P4 | DDC 362.2—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021040340
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ISBN: 9780367697600 (pbk)
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DOI: 10.4324/9781003144854
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CONTENTS
List of Figures ix
List of Tables xi
Acknowledgments xiii
List of Contributors xv
Introduction: Interventions in Mental
Health Rhetoric Research 1
Cathryn Molloy and Lisa Melonçon
PART I
Methodological Interventions 13
1 A Theory of Collective Intimacy 15
Lisa Melonçon and Lora Arduser
2 Reflections on Research as it Unfolds:
Inclusive Tactics as a Methodological Intervention 33
Sean Kamperman
3 Culture-Centered Approaches to Rhetorical Research:
Considering Domestic Violence as a Site for
Intersectional Interventions 51
Lisa DeTora and Tomeka Robinson
vi Contents
PART II
Legal, Cultural, and Institutional Interventions 69
4 Facilitating Rhetoric: Paratherapeutic Activity in
Community Support Groups 71
Nora Augustine
5 Women of Dignity and Grace: The Politics of
Respectability in Alcoholics Anonymous 89
Lori J. Joseph and Stephanie Kelley-Romano
6 Rhetorical Crocheting: New Chinese Moms Fighting
Postpartum Depression on Social Media 105
Hua Wang
7 Rerouting Stigma: Leading with Law in Mental Health
Rhetoric Research 117
Mark A. Hannah and Susie Salmon
8 Destigmatizing Black Mental Health: A Black Gay
Woman’s Experience 132
Tianna Cobb
9 An Autoethnographic Examination of Anosognosia in
a Sibling Exhibiting Severe Psychosis: Reimagining
Inclusiveness in MHRR 150
Cynthia Ryan
PART III
Pedagogical and Co-Curricular Interventions 167
10 Toward an Empathy-First Approach to Student Mental
Health: A Guide for Faculty Development 169
Lynn Reid
11 “Do You Feel Like ☹”: Discursive Interventions in
University Mental Health Rhetorics 185
Leslie R. Anglesey and Adam Hubrig
Contents vii
12 Online University Mental Health Tools: Definitions and
Narratives as Interventions 206
Barbara George and Rachael Blasiman
Index 227
FIGURES
12.1 Counseling helps 211
12.2 Some reasons for counseling 212
12.3 Free anonymous online mental health screening 213
12.4 Sample coding 217
