The mental health and well-being of university staff and students in the UK are reported to have seriously deteriorated. Rather than taking this ‘mental health crisis’ at face value, we carry out network and discourse analyses to investigate the policy assemblages (comprising social actors, institutions, technologies, knowledges and discourses) through which the ‘crisis' is addressed. Our analysis shows how knowledges from positive psychology and behavioural economics, disciplinary techniques driven by metrics and data analytics, and growing markets in digital therapeutic technologies work as an ensemble. Together, they instrumentalise mental health, creating motivational ecologies that allow economic agendas to seep through to subjects who are encouraged to monitor and rehabilitate themselves. Mental health’ as a problem for UK universities has come to be largely defined through the outcomes of ‘resilience’ and ‘employability’ and is addressed through markets that enable training, monitoring, measuring and ‘nudging’ students and staff towards these outcomes.

据报道，英国大学教职工和学生的心理健康状况严重恶化。我们不是从表面上看待这场“心理健康危机”，而是进行网络和话语分析来调查解决“危机”的政策组合（包括社会行动者、制度、技术、知识和话语）。我们的分析显示了来自积极心理学和行为经济学的知识、由指标和数据分析驱动的学科技术以及不断增长的数字治疗技术市场如何作为整体发挥作用。它们共同促进了心理健康，创造了激励生态，使经济议程渗透到被鼓励自我监控和康复的受试者身上。