Queering geopsychiatry

Psychiatry has evolved through interdisciplinary borrowing, particularly from anthropology, sociology, and philosophy, to understand forms of suffering that cannot be reduced to biology alone. Geopsychiatry extends this tradition by examining how geopolitical, environmental, and economic forces shape mental health. This paper argues that geopsychiatry should be queered through queer anthropology, not simply by adding sexual and gender minorities as subjects of study, but by adopting queer anthropology as a methodological intervention. Queer, in this sense, functions as a form of resistance to fixed categories, normative assumptions, and dominant modes of knowledge production. Queer anthropology enables geopsychiatry to ask questions that conventional psychiatric methods are less equipped to answer. It also helps theorise resistance, survival, and misrecognition beyond the binaries of risk and resilience. Queering geopsychiatry therefore offers a critical framework for understanding how power, place, and normativity unequally shape psychic life.