Mad Studies Reader

Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health
Herausgeber: Lewis, Bradley; Russell, Jazmine; Ali, Alisha

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 652
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1256g
• ISBN-13: 9780367709099
• ISBN-10: 0367709090
• Artikelnr.: 70149473

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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