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Mick McKeown

@mickmckeown24.bsky.social
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Mental health nurse academic & trade union activist. Interested in alliance building with health, disability and survivor movements.

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Mike Haslam @mbhaslam.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Sharing our new paper: Resisting Psychopathologies of Dominance and Authoritarianism: From Trumpian Dystopia to Better Tomorrows. An honour once more to have my name in print alongside @mickmckeown24.bsky.social Published online and open access. Available at: doi.org/10.1111/jpm....
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Resisting Psychopathologies of Dominance and Authoritarianism: From Trumpian Dystopia to Better Tomorrows
Background The world and mental health nursing face several crises that, in different ways, reflect problems of dominance. Global politics are afflicted with a growth of support for right-wing ideol...
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Mick McKeown @mickmckeown24.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Tiny right wing gathering surrounded by much larger anti fascist counter protest. Liverpool. This is what community looks like
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Mick McKeown @mickmckeown24.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PCf... A taster produced by the mental elf for forthcoming conference talk at BIGSPD in Liverpool
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Mick McKeown - Cultivating Democratic Mental Health: Relational Practice and Cooperation
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Mick McKeown @mickmckeown24.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This looks very much worth reading
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jackiefaux.bsky.social @jackiefaux.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Here's the paper @jessdw.bsky.social and I published in October. It's my first publication and there is a curse word! Please reach out to me if you'd like access. Nursing in the Capitalocene: An anarchistic approach to governmentality and pastoral care doi.org/10.1111/nup....
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Nursing in the Capitalocene: An anarchistic approach to governmentality and pastoral care
During the COVIDicine, many nurses awoke to the ways that the Healthcare-Industrial Complex (HIC) dictates the care we are able to provide. Using the Foucauldian concepts of pastoral power and govern...
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Asylum Magazine @asylummagazine.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The Winter issue of Asylum will be published and distributed in early December. Everyone is invited. Join us for our online launch. Date: Tuesday 17th December Time: 1800- 1900 GMT Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Front cover of Asylum Magazine. Flags in rainbow colours flying in the wind with text that says ‘‘they/them; he/him; survivors/ workers; disabled/mad; she/her’.

Back cover of Asylum Magazine in shades of teal, white and golden yellow. A bird souring high in the sky with the message ‘United we fly divided we fall’ in bold. A few feathers falling are falling off the bird ‘they them, he him, survivors workers, disabled mad and she her’.  The image illustrates the importance of unity and the perils of separation and division 
online launch

Tuesday 17 December

18:00-19:00 GMT

- contributors speaking about their articles

- questions and discussion

- contributing poets reading their poems

- information about Asylum



Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkc-6orTkuGtNWTr2wGjrWJ0UdBzReVu6F#/registration
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