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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, this 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.
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Part I. Innovative Artists
Introducing Mad Studies
- “Icarus Wing,” “National Association for the Eradication of Mental Illness,” and “Taking Care of the Basics”
Icarus Project
- Mad Studies and Mad-Positive Music
Mark A. Castrodale
- Woody Gunthrie’s Brain
Issa Ibrahim
- The Invisible Line of Madness
Sabrina Chap
- Cry Havoc: The Madness of Returning Home from War
Stephan Wolfert
- Betty and Veronica
Emily Allan and Leah Hennessey
- The Uses of Depression: The Way Around Is Through
David Budbill
- Inbetweenland
Jacks McNamara
- Sometimes/I Slip
L. D. Green
- The Mystery of Madness through Art and Mad Studies
Ekaterina Netchitailova
- Mad Art Makes Sense
Lorna Collins
- Are You Conrad?
Sophia Szamosi
Part II. Critical Scholars
- Theoretical Considerations in Mad Studies
Erica Fletcher
- Obsession in Our Time
Lennard Davis
- A (Head) Case for a Mad Humanities: Sula’s Shadrack and Black Madness
Hayley C. Stefan
- How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Notes toward a Mad Methodology: From “How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind:
Madness and Black Radical Creativity”
La Marr Jurelle Bruce
- Commercialized Science and Epistemic Injustice: Exposing and Resisting Neoliberal Global Mental Health Discourse
Justin M. Karter, Lisa Cosgrove, and Farahdeba Herrawi
- “Structural Competency” Meets Mad Studies: Reckoning with Madness and Mental Diversity beyond the Social and Structural Determinants of Mental Health
Nev Jones
- The Neoliberal Project: Mental Health and Marginality in India
Zaphya Jena
- Child As Metaphor: Colonialism, Psy-Governance, and Epistemicide
China Mills and Brenda A. LeFrançois
- Beyond Disordered Brains and Mother Blame: Critical Issues in
Autism and Mothering
Patty Douglas and Estée Klar
- Enacting Activism: Depathologizing Trauma in Military Veterans
through Theatre
Alisha Ali and Luke Bokenfohr
Part III. Concerned Clinicians
- Mental Illness Is Still a Myth
Thomas Szasz
- The Emergence of the UK Critical Psychiatry Network: Reflections and Themes
Pat Bracken, Duncan Double, Suman Fernando, Joanna Moncrieff, Philip Thomas, and Sami Timimi
- Crisis Response as a Human Rights Flashpoint: Critical Elements of Community Support for Individuals Experiencing Significant Emotional Distress
Peter Stastny, Anne M. Lovell, Julie Hannah, Daniel Goulart, Alberto Vasquez, Seana O’Callaghan, and Dainius Pūras
- Sanism: Histories, Applications, and Studies So Far
Stephanie LeBlanc-Omstead and Jennifer Poole
- On Being Insane in Sane Places: Breaking into the Cult of the Mental Health Industry
Noel Hunter
- Therapy as a Tool in Dismantling Oppression
Gitika Talwar
- Decolonizing Psychotherapy by Owning Our Madness
Debbie-Ann Chambers
- Creating a Cultural Foundation to Contextualize and Integrate
Spiritual Emergence
Katrina Michelle
- The Establishment and the Mystic: Musings on Relationships between Psychoanalysis and Human Development
Marilyn Charles
- Rethinking Psychiatry with Mad Studies
Bradley Lewis
Part IV. Daring Activists
- The Ex-Patients’ Movement: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going
Judi Chamberlin
- The Icarus Project: A Counter Narrative for Psychic Diversity
Sascha Altman DuBrul
- Ending Coercion
Alberto Vásquez Encalada
- Language Games Used to Construct Autism as Pathology
Nick Chown
- The Black Wisdom Collective
Kelechi Ubozoh
- Mad Resistance/Mad Alternatives: Democratizing Mental Health Care
Jeremy Andersen, Ed Altwies, Jonah Bossewitch, Celia Brown, Kermit Cole, Sera Davidow, Sascha Altman DuBrul, Eric Friedland-Kays, Gelini Fontaine, Will Hall, Chris Hansen, Bradley Lewis, Audre Lorde Project, Maryse Mitchell-Brody, Jacks McNamara, Gina Nikkel, Pablo Sadler, David Stark, Adaku Utah, Agustina Vidal, and Cheyenna Layne Weber
- Black Resilience in the Face of Bullshit: Wellness and Safety Plan
Adaku Utah
- Demolition, Abolition, and Inherited Legacies of Madness
Leah Harris
- A Critical Overview of Mental Health-Related Beliefs, Services and Systems in Uganda and Recent Activist and Legal Challenges
Kabale Benon Kitafuna
- Letter to the Mother of a “Schizophrenic”: We Must Do Better Than
Forced Treatment
Will Hall
- With the Launch of Mad in Denmark, a Global Network for Radical Change Grows Stronger
Robert Whitaker
- Defunding Sanity
Raj Mariwala
- Making the Case for Multiplicity: A Holistic Framework for Madness
and Transformation
Jazmine Russell
