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A critique of regulation in the helping professions, this chapter is a riveting investigation into the everyday practices by which able nurses are declared “unfit to practice.” The researchers trace the construction of two nurses as “unfit,” showing the conflation of “mental illness” with incompetence. In one of the cases, they additionally show how anti-Black racist prejudices became de-raced and reinscribed as “incompetence” because of “mental illness.”
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Chapman, C., Azevedo, J., Ballen, R., Poole, J. (2016). A Kind of Collective Freezing-Out: How Helping Professionals’ Regulatory Bodies Create “Incompetence” and Increase Distress. In: Burstow, B. (eds) Psychiatry Interrogated. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41174-3_3
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