My interdisciplinary research examines the contributions of contemporary mental health patient rights groups’ in their efforts to democratize, politicize, and ultimately shape community mental health care in the United States. I also indicate ways in which mental health social movements may be co-opted by dominant logics in the mental health industrial complex. I approach these topics through qualitative research, including ethnographic fieldwork, and draw theoretical insights from the anthropology of mental health, critical disability studies, and mad studies to describe the ways in which mental health activism(s) interact with the fields of psychiatry and psychology. You can check out my CV here.
Journal Articles
Journal Articles
- 2020 Fletcher, E.H., Barroso, A.,“It's a much more relaxed atmosphere”: Atmospheres of Recovery at a Peer Respite. Emotion, Space, & Society.
- 2020 Fletcher, E.H., Bossewitch, J., Studying The Icarus Project through Digital Bricolage: How Digital Platforms Reflect Shifting Strategies in the Development of a Social Movement Organization. Practicing Anthropology: A Journal for the Society of Applied Anthropology 42(2): 49-54.
- 2020 Fletcher, E.H., Barroso, A., Croft, B., A Case Study of a Peer Respite’s Integration into a Public Mental Health System. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 31(1): 218-234.
- 2019 Fletcher, E.H., Barroso, A., Organizational Dynamics at a Peer Respite: A Focused Ethnography of an Emergent Strategy. Social Work in Mental Health 17(5): 509-532.
- 2019 Fletcher, E.H., Price, D., Capacity and Non-Compliance: Mental Wellness Modules in a Community Health Worker Certification Course. Health Professions Education 5:39-47.
- 2018 “Boundary Formation” within Mutual Aid Assemblages. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 43: 93-115.
- 2018 Uncivilizing “Mental Illness”: Contextualizing Diverse Mental States and Posthuman Emotional Ecologies within The Icarus Project. Journal of Medical Humanities 39(1):29-43.
- 2017 Fletcher, E.H., Piemonte, N. Navigating the Paradoxes of Neoliberalism: Quiet Subversion in Mentored Service-Learning for the Pre-Health Humanities. Journal of Medical Humanities 38(4):397-407.
- 2016 Dis/Assembling Schizophrenia on YouTube: Theorizing an Analog Body in a Virtual Sphere. Journal of Medical Humanities 37(3):257-274.
- 2020 Baker, S., Fletcher, E.H. A History of Community Psychiatry. In Community Psychiatry Primer. James Baker & Sarah Baker, eds. London: Oxford Press.
- 2018 On the Borderlands of Care: Towards a Politics of Welcoming. In Critical Mental Health Nursing: Observations from the Inside. Pete Bull, Jonathon Gadsby, and Steve Williams, eds. Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books.