Adrian Prisacariu (he/him) is a PhD student in the Department of Health and Social Care at the University of Essex. After achieving BSc and MSc in Psychology he completed clinical training in MSc in Mental Health Nursing and practiced in acute psychiatric settings in the UK. In his research he investigates the discourses on power and power relations existent in psychiatry with a focus on ideologically constructed meanings.
Other research interests include Post-psychiatry; Subject and Subjectivity in the psychiatric clinic; Hegemony and Populism in mental health policies.