The Political Economy of Mental Illness in South Africa.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Prologue -- Acknowledgment -- 1 Introduction -- What is meant by "severe mental and neurological conditions" -- Making sense of mental health care in contemporary times -- Structure of the book -- Note -- 2 The governance of mental health care in South Africa -- Introduction -- State-provided mental health care during pre-democratic South Africa -- The Smith Mitchell and Co arrangement -- Public mental health care in post-apartheid South Africa -- Towards a democratic public health system -- Private sector growth -- The role of the non-profit sector -- Mental health care's post-apartheid journey -- Global mental health and subsequent explosion in research -- National policy -- Civil society -- Contemporary mental health system -- Notes -- 3 Collaboration between state and non-state mental health services -- Introduction -- Methods -- Setting -- Approach and design -- Instrument development -- Data gathering -- Data management and analysis -- Ethical considerations -- Study findings -- Extent of collaboration -- Nature of state and non-state mental health service collaboration -- Range of services offered -- Referrals -- Reasons for mental health service collaboration -- Power dynamics -- Quality, effectiveness and efficiency of care -- Discussions -- Limitations -- Recommendations -- Conclusion -- Note -- 4 Collaboration between the state and civil society: An uneasy coalition -- Introduction -- Post-apartheid policy contexts shaping CSO activities -- The roles and responsibilities of CSOs -- Finding a vocation in the New South Africa -- Oversight and advocacy -- Increasingly fuzzy borders of independence -- The NAWONGO court case -- 2010 -- 2011-2013 -- 2014 and aftermath -- What do the NAWONGO events mean for mental health care?.

SASSA grants scandal -- Note -- 5 Governance of state and civil society mental health care collaboration -- Introduction -- Methods -- Findings -- Participants -- Participants and formal authority -- Participants and resources -- Participants and discursive legitimacy -- Process design -- Process design: Formal authority and resources -- Process design and discursive legitimacy -- Content -- Content and formal authority -- Content and resources -- Content and discursive legitimacy -- Mental health stewardship -- Mental health financing structures -- Prioritisation -- Strategic leadership -- Information and monitoring system -- Resistance -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Note -- 6 When systems fail: Life Esidimeni and the meaning of justice -- Introduction -- The Life Esidimeni crisis: A brief timeline -- Unfolding of events -- The Ombud Report -- Public arbitration and beyond -- A questionable justice -- The TRC as a (unsatisfactory) blueprint for justice -- Justice in a public sphere -- Towards a distributive justice -- Note -- 7 Neoliberal mental health care in post-apartheid South Africa -- Introduction -- What do we mean by neoliberalism? -- Shifting responsibility to civil society -- Costs and value -- The local-global nexus of capital -- The value of people with severe mental and neurological conditions -- The centrality of death -- 8 Concluding thoughts -- Postscript -- References -- Index.

The book describes key socio-political reforms that helped shape post-apartheid South Africa's mental health system.

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