Mad Studies Reader : Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health (Paperback)

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 Coercion? 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?