Invisible minds: The dominant wellbeing discourse, mental health, bio-power and chameleon resistance
研究新自由主义经济中主导福祉话语如何作为生物权力运作，通过访谈有心理健康诊断的个体，揭示他们通过隐藏病情来抵抗污名化，但这种“变色龙式抵抗”实则强化了主导话语。
The dominant wellbeing discourse (DWD) in neoliberal economies can be understood as a form of bio-power that presupposes healthy individuals. It seeks to produce subjects who take responsibility for their wellbeing and, in this way, render themselves productive. Drawing on interviews with individuals who volunteered a diagnosed mental health condition (MHC), we explore how they resisted the negative associations with MHCs through making their conditions invisible. Hence they sought to blend in and make themselves visible as ‘normal’, well, healthy, responsible, productive subjects. Although we call this chameleon resistance it is bound up with consent and compliance as it reproduces the DWD and negative associations with MHCs.