The Social Constructions and Experiences of Madness

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-35078-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 96, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

Reihe: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries

Over the course of the centuries the meanings around mental illness have shifted many times according to societal beliefs and the political atmosphere of the day. The way madness is defined has far reaching effects on those who have a mental disorder, and determines how they are treated by the professionals responsible for their care, and the society of which they are a part. Although madness as mental illness seems to be the dominant Western view of madness, it is by no means the only view of what it means to be ‘mad’. The symptoms of madness or mental illness occur in all cultures of the world, but have different meanings in different social and cultural contexts. Evidence suggests that meanings of mental illness have a significant impact on subjective experience; the idioms used in the expression thereof, indigenous treatments, and subsequent outcomes. Thus, the societal understandings of madness are central to the problem of mental illness and those with the lived experience can lead the process of reconstructing this meaning.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dos Santos, Monika

Pelletier, Jean-Francois

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Soziologie & Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Who’s Lived Experience Is It Anyway?
Monika dos Santos and Jean-François Pelletier

Madness: A Revolutionary Rear-Guard
Oisín Wall

‘You can’t label it and there’s no umbrella’: The Consumer Movement and the Social Construction of Mental Illness
Kara Holmes and Fiona Ann Papps

Psychology’s Madness: Solipsistic Denial of Relational Dependency
David Lewis Wilson and Monika dos Santos

Has Autism Changed?
Simon Cushing

Creativity and ‘Madness’: Myths, Constructions and Realities
Jonathan Appel, Dohee Kim-Appel, Erin Snapp, Claire Whiteman, Mary Cassidy and Rebecca Stanic

The Lived Experience of Mental Health Issues as a Constructive Asset for Redefining and Measuring Citizenship:A Social Enterprise
Jean-François Pelletier

The Experience of Things: Memory, Photographic Representation and Emotions in Psychiatric Field Research
Carlo Orefice

Über Autor(innen)

Monika dos Santos is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of South Africa. She holds doctoral degrees in Psychology and Clinical Psychology, and is currently completing an MSc in Sustainable Urban Development at the University of Oxford. She is curious about human-environment functioning and psychopathology.

Jean-François Pelletier is associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Montreal, full time researcher at Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal, and Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale School of Medicine, Program for Recovery & Community Health. He holds a doctoral degree (PhD) in political science and maintains an interest in all aspects of citizenship, especially as applied to the field of public mental health.