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Aeon · 2024 · Public scholarship

Constant Confession

On the culture of therapeutic self-disclosure, the confessional imperative in digital mental health, and what gets lost when vulnerability becomes a wellness practice.

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Journal of Critical Public Health · 2026

“What are we doing here?”: Implementation science and the politics of research as context

Interrogates how “research context” is constructed and governed in implementation science — and what the politics of that framing costs.

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Peer-reviewed · Published & Accepted (4)

2026

“What are we doing here?”: Implementation science and the politics of research as context +

Claypool, E., & Neiman, A.

Journal of Critical Public Health

Published

Examines implementation science as a political project, interrogating how “research context” is constructed and used to govern evidence translation.

2025

“Che Vuoi, Mate?”: Lacanian Subjectivity in an Australian Public Mental Health Campaign +

Neiman, A.

Social Text (accepted)

Accepted

Applies Lacanian theory to an Australian national mental health campaign, questioning the hailing of subjects into “having” mental health.

2023

Client States: Australia’s Offshore Detainees and the Limits of Therapy +

Neiman, A.

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 37(3), 264–279

Published

Ethnographic account of WhatsApp-based crisis counseling provided to refugees held in Australian offshore detention.

Under Peer Review (3)

2026

Using Group Model Building to Identify Research Priorities for Translating Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies from Research into Practice +

Cabassa, L., Ballard, E., Toney, K., Neiman, A., Adams, D., Lester, R., Nicol, G.

NPJ Mental Health Research

Under Review

A participatory systems mapping study using group model building to surface research priorities as psychedelic-assisted therapies move from controlled trials toward real-world clinical implementation.

2025

Texturing Care in the Global North: Digital Mental Health and the Disavowal of the Therapeutic Alliance +

Neiman, A.

Ethos (R&R)

Under Review

Argues that digital mental health platforms systematically disavow the therapeutic alliance — the relational core of effective psychotherapy — while simultaneously depending on its affective residue.

2025

A Common Factors Approach to Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Treatment Manuals +

Neiman, A., Gukasyan, N., & Cabassa, L.

Psychedelic Medicine

Under Review

Proposes applying the common factors framework — which identifies shared therapeutic ingredients across modalities — to psychedelic-assisted therapy manuals, surfacing what is doing the real work across diverse protocols.

In Progress

2027

Psychic Retreats: The New Politics of Mental Health in the Global North +

Neiman, A.

Book Monograph

In Progress

Account of the contemporary mental health landscape as a political project governing interiority.

Public Scholarship

2025

“It’s like… ‘you’re welcome. Love, science'”: On Doing Critical Anthropology When the Enterprise is Under Attack +

Neiman, A.

Platypus, May 1

Public

Reflections on practicing critical anthropology amidst institutional hostility.

2024

Constant Confession +

Neiman, A.

Aeon, Oct 14

Public

On the confessional imperative embedded in digital mental health platforms.

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