Making Good of Crisis: Temporalities of Care in UK Mental Health Services

Wright, Fiona

doi:10.1080/01459740.2021.2018586

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“…Another ethnographic study, listening to team reflections in an Open Dialogue service in the NHS, reveals the dilemma of "temporality" (Wright, 2022). The issue is that members of the team are committed to a slowed-down dialogical way of working, but are themselves desperately short of the time necessary to work in this way because they function in a healthcare system that is itself in chronic crisis (Wright, 2022, 317, 326).…”

Section: Anthropology and Open Dialoguementioning

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The contribution of anthropology to the study of Open Dialogue: ethnographic research methods and opportunities

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When Open Dialogue diversifies internationally as an approach to mental healthcare, so too do the research methodologies used to describe, explain and evaluate this alternative to existing psychiatric services. This article considers the contribution of anthropology and its core method of ethnography among these approaches. It reviews the methodological opportunities in mental health research opened up by anthropology, and specifically the detailed knowledge about clinical processes and institutional contexts. Such knowledge is important in order to generalize innovations in practice by identifying contextual factors necessary to implementation that are unknowable in advance. The article explains the ethnographic mode of investigation, exploring this in more detail with an account of the method of one anthropological study under way in the UK focused on Peer-Supported Open Dialogue (POD) in the National Health Service (NHS). It sets out the objectives, design and scope of this research study, the varied roles of researchers, the sites of field research and the specific interaction between ethnography and Open Dialogue. This study is original in its design, context, conduct and the kind of data produced, and presents both opportunities and challenges. These are explained in order to raise issues of method that are of wider relevance to Open Dialogue research and anthropology.

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Section: Anthropology and Open Dialoguementioning

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The contribution of anthropology to the study of Open Dialogue: ethnographic research methods and opportunities

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“… 10 See: Arney & Bergen, 1983 ; Horobin & McIntosh, 1983 ; Zerubavel, 1979 . For more recent articulations examining NHS ‘crises’ see: Baraitser & Brook 2021 ; Wright 2022 . …”

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The shadows of waiting and care: on discourses of waiting in the history of the British National Health Service.

Bar-Haim¹,

Baraitser²,

Moore³

2023

Wellcome Open Res

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Waiting is at the centre of experiences and practices of healthcare. However, we know very little about the relationship between the subjective experiences of patients who wait in and for care, health practitioners who ‘prescribe’ and manage waiting, and how this relates to broader cultural meanings of waiting. Waiting features heavily in the sociological, managerial, historical and health economics literatures that investigate UK healthcare, but the focus has been on service provision and quality, with waiting (including waiting lists and waiting times) drawn on as a key marker to test the efficiency and affordability of the NHS. In this article, we consider the historical contours of this framing of waiting, and ask what has been lost or occluded through its development. To do so, we review the available discourses in the existing literature on the NHS through a series of ‘snapshots’ or key moments in its history. Through its negative imprint, we argue that what shadows these discourses is the idea of waiting and care as phenomenological temporal experiences, and time as a practice of care. In response, we begin to trace the intellectual and historical resources available for alternative histories of waiting – materials that might enable scholars to reconstruct some of the complex temporalities of care marginalized in existing accounts of waiting, and which could help reframe both future historical accounts and contemporary debates about waiting in the NHS.

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Exhausting care: On the collateral realities of caring in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic

Rhodes,

Ruiz Osorio,

Maldonado Martinez

et al. 2024

Social Science & Medicine

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Making Good of Crisis: Temporalities of Care in UK Mental Health Services

Cited by 3 publications

References 24 publications

The contribution of anthropology to the study of Open Dialogue: ethnographic research methods and opportunities

The contribution of anthropology to the study of Open Dialogue: ethnographic research methods and opportunities

The shadows of waiting and care: on discourses of waiting in the history of the British National Health Service.

Exhausting care: On the collateral realities of caring in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic

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