Bio
China's work explores the psycho-political effects of the globalisation of the psy-disciplines, the medications and mentalities they elicit, and how they shape our very understandings of ourselves and of the social conditions in which our lives are embedded. She is interested in exploring how the psy-disciplines and psychotropic drugs function in local and global contexts of entrenched inequality, chronic poverty, (neo)colonial oppression, and increasingly under the politics of austerity. In 2014, China published the book ‘Decolonizing Global Mental Health: the Psychiatrization of the Majority World’ (Routledge), which draws on research with NGOs and user-survivor organisations in India, and analyses global mental health policies as forms of colonial discourse. She has since published work on the mental health-poverty nexus, mental health and international development, and psycho-pharmaceuticals as 'essential medicines'. China is currently working on research into the social life of digital technology aimed at behaviour change and well-being http://siid.group.shef.ac.uk/blog/making-mental-tal-technology/. China is a member of the editorial collective for Asylum magazine http://www.asylumonline.net/; a Fellow of the Critical Institute www.criticalinstitute.org; and a Fellow of Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID) www.siid.group.shef.ac.uk/.
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Indicative publications
Book
Mills, C. (2014). Decolonizing Global Mental Health: The Psychiatrization of the Majority World. Routledge, London and New York.
Book chapters
Mills, C. (2016). Mental Health and the Global Mindset of Development. In Grugel, J. and Hammett, D. (Eds). The Palgrave Handbook of International Development.
Mills, C. and White, R. (2016). Efforts to Scale-up Mental Health Services in LMIC. In White, R., Read, U., Jain, S. and Orr, D. (Eds.). The Palgrave Handbook of Global Mental Health: Socio-cultural Perspectives. Palgrave.
Mills, C. and Davar, B. (2016). A local critique of Global Mental Health. In Grech, S. and Soldatic, K. (eds.). Disability and the Global South: The Critical Handbook. Springer.
Mills, C (2016). Educational Psychology in (times of) Crisis: Psychopolitics and the Governance of Poverty. In Gough, B (Ed.). Handbook of Critical Social Psychology. Palgrave MacMillan.
Mills, C. and White, R. (2016). Efforts to Scale-up Mental Health Services in LMIC. In White, R., Read, U., Jain, S. and Orr, D. (Eds.). The Palgrave Handbook of Global Mental Health: Socio-cultural Perspectives. Palgrave.
Mills, C. and Davar, B. (2016). A local critique of Global Mental Health. In Grech, S. and Soldatic, K. (eds.). Disability and the Global South: The Critical Handbook. Springer.
Mills, C (2016). Educational Psychology in (times of) Crisis: Psychopolitics and the Governance of Poverty. In Gough, B (Ed.). Handbook of Critical Social Psychology. Palgrave MacMillan.
Journal papers
Mills, C. (2015). The Psychiatrization of Poverty: Rethinking the mental health-poverty nexus. Social and Personality Psychology Compass,9(5), 213-222.
Mills, C. (2015). Symptom, seduction, subversion: Reading resistance to psychiatry through a post-colonial lens. CUSP: critical cultures and cultural critiques in psychology, 1, 22-46.
Mills, C. and Fernando, S. (2014). Globalising Mental Health or Pathologising the Global South? Mapping the Ethics, Theory and Practice of Global Mental Health. Disability and the Global South (DGS): An International Journal, 1(2), 188-202.
Mills, C. (2014). Psychotropic Childhoods: Global Mental Health and Pharmaceutical Childhoods. Children and Society, 28(1):1-11.
Kumar, M. and Mills, C. (2013). Resounding Echoes from Afar: De-familiarizing Psychology in India. Annual Review of Critical Psychology, 10; 549-576.
Mills, C. (2015). Symptom, seduction, subversion: Reading resistance to psychiatry through a post-colonial lens. CUSP: critical cultures and cultural critiques in psychology, 1, 22-46.
Mills, C. and Fernando, S. (2014). Globalising Mental Health or Pathologising the Global South? Mapping the Ethics, Theory and Practice of Global Mental Health. Disability and the Global South (DGS): An International Journal, 1(2), 188-202.
Mills, C. (2014). Psychotropic Childhoods: Global Mental Health and Pharmaceutical Childhoods. Children and Society, 28(1):1-11.
Kumar, M. and Mills, C. (2013). Resounding Echoes from Afar: De-familiarizing Psychology in India. Annual Review of Critical Psychology, 10; 549-576.