Mad Studies Reader

Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-367-70908-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 600 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

The last few years have brought increased writings from activists, artists, scholars, and concerned clinicians that cast a critical and constructive eye on psychiatry, mental health care, and the cultural relations of mental difference. With particular focus on accounts of lived experience and readings that cover issues of epistemic and social injustice in mental health discourse, the Mad Studies Reader brings together voices that advance anti-sanist approaches to scholarship, practice, art, and activism in this realm.

Beyond offering a theoretical and historical overview of mad studies, the Reader draws on the perspectives, voices, and experiences of artists, mad pride activists, humanities and social science scholars, and critical clinicians to explore the complexity of mental life and mental difference. Voices from these groups confront and challenge standard approaches to mental difference. They advance new structures of meaning and practice that are inclusive of those who have been systematically subjugated and promote anti-sanist approaches to counter inequalities, prejudices, and discrimination. Confronting modes of psychological oppression and the power of a few to interpret and define difference for so many, the Mad Studies Reader asks the critical question of how these approaches may be reconsidered, resisted, and reclaimed.

This collection will be of interest to mental health clinicians; students and scholars of the arts, humanities and social sciences; and anyone who has been affected by mental difference, directly or indirectly, who is curious to explore new perspectives.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ali, Alisha

Lewis, Bradley

Russell, Jazmine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introducing Mad Studies  Part I. Innovative Artists  Introduction  1. “National Association for the Eradication of Mental Illness” and “Taking Care of the Basics”  2. Mad Studies and Mad Positive Music  3. Woody Guthrie’s Brain  4. The Invisible Line of Madness  5. Cry Havoc: The Madness of Returning Home from War  6. Betty and Veronica  7. The Uses of Depression: The Way Around is Through  8. Inbetweenland  9. Sometimes/I Slip  10. The Mystery of Madness through Art and Mad Studies  11. Mad Art Makes Sense  12. Are You Conrad?  Part II. Critical Scholars  Introduction  13. Theoretical Considerations in Mad Studies  14. Obsession in Our Time  15. A (Head) Case for Mad Humanities: Sula’s Shadrack and Black Madness  16. How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Notes toward a Mad Methodology  17. Commercialized Science and Epistemic Injustice: Exposing and Resisting Neoliberal Global Mental Health Discourse  18. ‘Structural Competency’ meets Mad Studies:  Reckoning with madness and mental diversity beyond the social determinants of mental health  19. The Neoliberal Project: Mental Health and Marginality in India  20. Child as Metaphor: Colonialism, Psy-Goverance, and Epistemicide  21. Beyond Disordered Brains and Mother Blame: Critical Issues in Autism and Mothering  22. Enacting Activism: Depathologizing Trauma in Military Veterans Through Theatre  Part III. Concerned Clinicians  Introduction  23. Mental Illness is Still a Myth  24. The Emergence UK Critical Psychiatry Network: Reflections and Themes  25. Crisis Response as a Human Rights Flashpoint: Critical Elements of Community Support for Individuals Experiencing Significant Emotional Distress  26. Sanism: Histories, Applications, and Studies So Far  27. On Being Insane in Sane Places: Breaking into the Cult of Sanity  28. Therapy as a Tool in Dismantling Oppression  29. Decolonizing Psychotherapy by Owning Our Madness  30. Creating a Cultural Foundation for Spiritual Emergence  31. The Establisment and the Mystic  32. Re-thinking Psychiatry with Mad Studies  Part IV. Daring Activists  Introduction  33. The Ex-Patients' Movement: Where We've Been and Where We're Going  34. The Icarus Project: A Counter Narrative for Psychic-Diversity  35. Ending Coerción  36. Language games used to construct autism as pathology  37. The Black Wisdom Collective  38. Mad Resistance/Mad Alternatives: Democratizing Mental Health Care  39. Black Resilience in the Face of Bullshit: Wellness & Safety Plan  40. Demolition, Abolition, and the Legacy of Madness  41. A Brief, Critical History of Mental Health Services in Uganda and introduction to Contemporary Human Rights Organizing and Reform  42. Letter to the Mother of a “Schizophrenic”: We Must Do Better Than Forced Treatment  43. With the Launch of Mad in Denmark, a Global Network for Radical Change Grows Stronger  44. Defunding Sanity  45. Making the Case for Multiplicity: A Holistic Framework for Madness & Transformation

Über Autor(innen)

Bradley Lewis is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist with a background in the arts and humanities. He is associate professor at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and he is on the editorial board of the Journal of Medical Humanities. His books include Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry: The Birth of Postpsychiatry; Narrative Psychiatry: How Stories Can Shape Clinical Encounters; and Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature, Cinema, and Everyday Life (forthcoming).

Alisha Ali is Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at New York University. Her research focuses on the mental health effects of oppression, including violence, racism, discrimination and trauma. She is the co-editor of the book, Silencing the Self Across Cultures (Oxford University Press) as well as the co-editor of The Crisis of Connection (NYU Press).

Jazmine Russell is the co-founder of the Institute for the Development of Human Arts (IDHA), a transformative mental health training institute and host of Depth Work: A Holistic Mental Health Podcast. She is an interdisciplinary scholar of mad studies, critical psychology, and neuroscience, with experience working both within and outside the mental health system.