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About me ...

Joanne Elizabeth Hunt
Independent disabled researcher and therapist on hiatus, Stroud UK


MSc (distinction), MBACP, GMBPsS
 

Email:

joanneehunt@outlook.com  (academic)    
healthcarehubris@outlook.com (blogsite related)

Twitter:

@JoElizaHunt (academic-activism)

@HealthHubris (blogs)

Bio forthcoming ...

Hunt, J. (2022). Towards a critical psychology of chronic fatigue syndrome: Biopsychosocial narratives and UK welfare reform. Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, 22(1), 18-28.  (click here for full access final pdf)

Hunt, J. (2022). Holistic or harmful? Examining socio-structural factors in the biopsychosocial model of chronic illness, ‘medically unexplained symptoms’ and disability. Disability & Society, 18 July. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2022.2099250 

Hunt, J. (2022). Making space for disability studies within a structurally competent medical curriculum: Reflections on long Covid. Medical Humanities, 19 July. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2022-012415

Hunt, J. (2022). Examining the psychology of practitioners, institutions and structures: ‘Medically unexplained symptoms’ and biopsychosocial discourse reflexively revisited. Outlines. Critical Practice Studies, 23(1): 6–49.  https://doi.org/10.7146/ocps.v23i1.129191

Hunt, J. (2022, November 9). Biopsychosocial model or bio-political Ideology? Medically unexplained symptoms, welfare reform and the implications for Long-Covid. Citizen Network Research. https://citizen-network.org/library/biopsychosocial-model.html  ISBN download: 978-1-912712-44-1

Hunt, J., Blease, C. and Geraghty, K. (2022). Long Covid at the crossroads: Comparisons and lessons from the treatment of patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Journal of Health Psychology, 27(14), 3106-3120.  https://doi.org/10.1177/13591053221084494

Hunt, J. (2023). On the need for structurally competent counselling and psychotherapy: Neoliberal ideology, disability and the psy disciplines. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 5 April. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12649       

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Hunt, J. (2023). An exploration of victim blaming in ‘medically unexplained symptoms’: Neoliberalism and the need to justify the self, group, and the system. European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, 25(3) 278-300  https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2023.2240809

​Hunt, J. (2023). The psycho-emotionally disabling impact of academic landscapes of exclusion: experiences of a disabled postgraduate in perpetual lockdown  Disability & Society, 20 December.  https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2023.2295800

Hunt, J. (2023). Biopolitics, disavowed disability and the psy (corporate-state) complex: Common health problems and cognate labels. Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, 23(2), 6-16. https://egalitarianpublishing.com/JCPCP/2023/jcpcp2302_Hunt.html

Hunt, J. (2023). Examining the political underbelly of ME/CFS and Long Covid: Welfare reform, corporate profiteering, academic collusion, and the biopsychosocial model. ME Essential, Spring [May 17]: 12-15. https://meassociation.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/ME-Association-Joanne-Hunt-Article-09.05.23.pdf

Hunt, J. (2024). Inheriting discriminatory socio-political landscapes as ‘undeserving’ disabled people: the legacy of common health problems and the future for long Covid. Critical Social Policy. 14 February. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02610183241229050

Hunt, J., Runacres, J., Herron, D., & Sheffield, D. (2024). Exploring the Experience of Healthcare-Related Epistemic Injustice among People with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The Qualitative Report, 29(4), 1125-1148. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2024.6519

Hunt, J. (2024). Reflections on gendered disability denial: The case of energy limiting conditions, The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, 24 (1), pp. 6-15. https://egalitarianpublishing.com/JCPCP/2024/jcpcp2401_Hunt.html

Hunt J. & Blease C. (2024). Epistemic injustice, healthcare disparities and the missing pipeline: reflections on the exclusion of disabled scholars from health research. Journal of Medical Ethics. 23 May. https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2023-109837

Hunt, J. (2024). Will psychology ever ‘join hands’ with disability studies? Opportunities and challenges in working towards structurally competent and disability-affirmative psychotherapy for energy limiting conditions. Medical Humanities, 24 June. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2023-01287

Hunt, J. (2024). Toward the emancipation of “medically unexplained” and energy-limiting conditions: Contesting and reimagining psy through the lens of feminist disability studies. Feminism & Psychology. August 10. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535241267091

​​​Preprints:

Hunt, J. (2022, October 5). Mapping out a critical psychology of ‘medically unexplained symptoms’: Neoliberalism, academic-state-corporate agendas, and the need to justify the self and the system. Click here for preprint. 

Hunt, J. (2023, August 10). Contesting oppressive regimes of truth: A critical feminist re-examination of (bio)psychosocial hegemony in the field of myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome. SocArXiv https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/3g7kp

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