E-book titled The Struggle You Can't See: Experiences of Neurodivergent and Invisibly Disabled Students in Higher Education (2024) - synopsis: The author discusses findings from literature on the experiences of students with ADHD, dyslexia, autism, psychiatric disabilities, traumatic brain injuries, and disabling chronic physical illnesses. The inclusion of students with chronic illnesses is particularly timely, given the rising prevalence of long COVID symptoms and other lasting health impacts among university-aged individuals. Moreover Ash Lierman, who has extensive experience of serving students marginalized students, gives voice to this community, thus providing both a synthesis of existing research, and highlighting the needs and challenges of the students themselves. The Struggle You Can't See serves as a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners seeking to understand and support this underserved population, offering insights for transformational change in higher education.
E-book titled Making Mental Health: A Critical History (2024) - synopsis: Drawing on scholarship across several areas of historical inquiry as well as historical and contemporary clinical literature, the book uses a thematic approach to highlight decisive moments that demonstrate the stakes of this engagement in Anglo-American contexts. By tracing the (unfinished) history of institutions, the search for cures for psychiatric distress, the growing interest of the nation-state in mental health, the history of attempts to globalize psychiatry, the controversies over the politics of diagnostic categories that erupted in the 1960s and 1970s, and the history of theorizing about the relationship between the psyche and the market, the book offers a comprehensive account of the evolution of mental health into a commonplace concern.