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Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia: Quarterly Essay 85 Paperback – 21 Mar. 2022

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Around one-fifth of Australians will suffer from mental illness in any given year. And the pandemic is making things worse, especially in schools. Our mental health system is under stress and not fit for purpose. What is to be done?

In this brilliant mix of portraiture and analysis, Sarah Krasnostein tells the stories of three women and their treatment by the state while at their most unwell. What do their experiences tell us about the likelihood of institutional and cultural change?

Krasnostein argues that we live in a society that often punishes vulnerability, but shows we have the resources to mend a broken system. But do we have the will to do so, or must the patterns of the past persist into the future?

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• Publication date 21 Mar. 2022
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Sarah Krasnostein is a writer and a lawyer with a PhD in criminal law. A fourth generation American and a third generation Australian, she has lived and worked in both countries. Her essay, ‘The Secret Life of a Crime Scene Cleaner’, was published on Longreads and listed in Narratively’s Top 10 Stories for 2014. As a law lecturer and researcher, her areas of specialization are: the history of crime and punishment, comparative criminal law, sentencing law and criminal justice policy. She lives in Melbourne and spends part of the year working in New York City. The Trauma Cleaner (Text Publishing / St Martin’s Press) is her first book.

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Quarterly Essay 85: Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia (Unabridged‪)‬

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Mental illness is the great isolator - and the great unifier. Almost half of us will suffer from it at some point in our lives; it affects everybody in one way or another. Yet today, Australia’s mental health system is under stress and not fit for purpose, and the pandemic is only making things worse. What is to be done? In this brilliant mix of portraiture and analysis, Sarah Krasnostein tells the stories of three women and their treatment by the state while at their most unwell. What do their experiences tell us about the likelihood of institutional and cultural change? Krasnostein argues that we live in a society that often punishes vulnerability, but shows we have the resources to mend a broken system. But do we have the will to do so, or must the patterns of the past persist into the future? 'In our conception of government, and our willingness to fund it, we are closer to the Nordic countries than to America. However, we’re trending towards the latter with a new story of Australia. The moral of this new story is freedom over equality, and one freedom above all - the freedom to be unbothered by others’ needs. However, as we continue to saw ourselves off our perch, mental health might be the great unifier that climate change and the pandemic aren’t.' (Sarah Krasnostein, Not Waving, Drowning ) Sarah Krasnostein is the multi-award-winning author of The Trauma Cleaner , The Believer and Quarterly Essay Not Waving, Drowning . Her writing has appeared in magazines and journals in Australia, the United Kingdom and America. She holds a doctorate in criminal law.

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Mental illness is the great isolator - and the great unifier. Almost half of us will suffer from it at some point in our lives; it affects everybody in one way or another. Yet today, Australia’s mental health system is under stress and not fit for purpose, and the pandemic is only making things worse. What is to be done?

In this brilliant mix of portraiture and analysis, Sarah Krasnostein tells the stories of three women and their treatment by the state while at their most unwell. What do their experiences tell us about the likelihood of institutional and cultural change? Krasnostein argues that we live in a society that often punishes vulnerability, but shows we have the resources to mend a broken system. But do we have the will to do so, or must the patterns of the past persist into the future?

'In our conception of government, and our willingness to fund it, we are closer to the Nordic countries than to America. However, we’re trending towards the latter with a new story of Australia. The moral of this new story is freedom over equality, and one freedom above all - the freedom to be unbothered by others’ needs. However, as we continue to saw ourselves off our perch, mental health might be the great unifier that climate change and the pandemic aren’t.' (Sarah Krasnostein, Not Waving, Drowning )

Sarah Krasnostein is the multi-award-winning author of The Trauma Cleaner , The Believer and Quarterly Essay Not Waving, Drowning . Her writing has appeared in magazines and journals in Australia, the United Kingdom and America. She holds a doctorate in criminal law.

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Loved all of this factual and accurate assessment of Australia’s mental health system, from someone who works in the broken system itself.

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While the consequences of our persistent and “not I” focused approach that lead to ever increasing separation for us and the so called other are clearly not easy to change. This essay, the stories and insights it contains are both brave and beautiful. Listen to it all you will not regret it Del

Sarah comprehensively covers all that is disturbing and of great concern regarding Australia's treatment of the mentally unwell. An account underpinned and influenced by the brutal colonial history that she argues pervades contemporary systems and understanding of people's suffering and care. A must read !

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something every Aussie needs to hear

listening to this was more validating then any experience I've had in my entire life regarding these issues so thankyou for making the problem more visable!!!! your awareness and ability to break down for both the mentally struggling and the normal has given me hope that maybe something will change one day... this needs to spread everywhere to everyone like the RAT tests lol

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It's an important topic, though hoped to be paired with a better narration. Nothing against American accent, but maybe an Aussie one fits this work better.

A deeply impressive piece of research and writing. Sarah Krasnostein is a singular voice in Australian literature.

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Important topic AWFUL narration

I have loved all of Sarah Krasnostein's books so I was keen to listen to this, unfortunately, the narration really spoils an otherwise important essay.

Excellent Quarterly Review on an important topic for our times. Note, the author reads the work using her own accent. I really like the author’s reading voice.

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I don’t think about what has been accomplished but about how much yet remains to be done. - paraphrased comment of Marie Curie on receiving her 2nd undergraduate degree. As a community how appropriate is it that we congratulate ourselves on our supposed accomplishments?

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Quarterly Essay deep dives into Y-Change Lived Experience Consultant’s mental health journey

In mid-2021 Dr Sarah Krasnostein, author of the Trauma Cleaner , met with a Lived Experience Consultant from the Y-Change team to gain insight into mental health and how it is managed within our community, for her Quarterly Essay, Not Waving, Drowning – Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia .

The essay looks at the experiences of three women and how they were treated by the state when at their most vulnerable.

How can we mend Australia’s broken mental health system?

Dr Krasnostein asks in her essay, while we have the resources to mend our broken mental health system, do we have the will, or must the patterns of the past persist into the future?

Eliza* shared her story with Sarah over many months, revealing how she survived significant childhood trauma, the ongoing challenges of living with borderline personality disorder and suicidal thoughts, all while navigating the complexities of the mental health service system as a young person.

Berry Street is proud of Eliza and her advocacy work, and for sharing her story in such a way that illustrates what needs to be done to fix our mental health system, and urgently.

The Guardian published an extract of the essay , which focusses on the discussions Sarah and the Lived Experience Consultant had together.

The moral of this new story is freedom over equality, and one freedom above all – the freedom to be unbothered by others’ needs. However, as we continue to saw ourselves off our perch, mental health might be the great unifier that climate change and the pandemic are not. Dr Sarah Krasnostein Author, Not Waving, Drowning

The Quarterly Essay Not Waving, Drowning is available for purchase . $5 from each sale goes to support Berry Street initiatives like Y-Change.

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Berry Street’s Y-Change initiative is a social and systemic change platform for young people aged 18 to 30 with lived experiences of socioeconomic and systemic disadvantage. As Lived Experience Consultants, the team works to challenge the thinking and practices of social systems through advocacy and leadership.

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FROM SELMA TO MOSCOW:

How Human Rights Activists Transformed U.S. Foreign Policy

The 1960s marked a transformation of human rights activism in the United States. At a time of increased concern for the rights of their fellow citizens–civil and political rights, as well as the social and economic rights that Great Society programs sought to secure–many Americans saw inconsistencies between domestic and foreign policy and advocated for a new approach. The activism that arose from the upheavals of the 1960s fundamentally altered U.S. foreign policy–yet previous accounts have often overlooked its crucial role.

In  From Selma to Moscow,  Sarah B. Snyder traces the influence of human rights activists and advances a new interpretation of U.S. foreign policy in the “long 1960s.” She shows how transnational connections and social movements spurred American activism that achieved legislation that curbed military and economic assistance to repressive governments, created institutions to monitor human rights around the world, and enshrined human rights in U.S. foreign policy making for years to come. Snyder analyzes how Americans responded to repression in the Soviet Union, racial discrimination in Southern Rhodesia, authoritarianism in South Korea, and coups in Greece and Chile. By highlighting the importance of nonstate and lower-level actors, Snyder shows how this activism established the networks and tactics critical to the institutionalization of human rights. A major work of international and transnational history,  From Selma to Moscow  reshapes our understanding of the role of human rights activism in transforming U.S. foreign policy in the 1960s and 1970s and highlights timely lessons for those seeking to promote a policy agenda resisted by the White House.

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“Based on deep and thorough archival research, as well as an innovative and creative use of quantitative measures, Snyder’s book demonstrates that issues of human rights emerged as a significant priority for many Americans, both political leaders and activists, well before the Carter Administration. From Selma to Moscow is an extremely important contribution to what remains one of the most important challenges in American foreign policy.”

–Thomas Schwartz, Vanderbilt University

“In this illuminating book Sarah Snyder explains the origins of the human rights movement in the 1960s and chronicles its evolution until the inauguration of Jimmy Carter. Linking the evolution of human rights to other social movements, she probes the motives, highlights the transnational connections, and analyzes the successes and failures of activists regarding human rights violations inside the Soviet Union, Southern Rhodesia, Greece, South Korea, and Chile. This book is an important contribution to the literature on human rights.”

–Melvyn Leffler, Edward Stettinius Professor of American History, University of Virginia

“Human rights is emerging as one of the central concerns of modern humanities and social science scholarship. From Selma to Moscow illuminates the missing links between histories of the 1940s and the 1970s, the focus of previous studies. Sarah Snyder’s globe-spanning tale of activists and policy makers reveals the significance of the 1960s for bringing human rights to the forefront of U.S. foreign relations. An important book from an excellent historian.”

–Tim Borstelmann, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

“In this impressive and deeply researched work, Sarah Snyder reveals the way global struggles over human rights became a feature of American politics and foreign policy in the 1960s and 70s as activists, journalists, and Congress members made the case that the United States was complicit if the country ignored brutal repression. An important contribution.”

–Mary L. Dudziak, Emory University School of Law

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