Mad world : the politics of mental health / Micha Frazer-Carroll.

  • Frazer-Carroll, Micha
Date:
2023
  • Books

About this work

Description

"Mental health is a political issue, but we often discuss it as a personal one. How is the current mental health crisis connected to capitalism, racism and other social issues? In a different world, how might we transform the ways that we think about mental health, diagnosis and treatment? These are some of the big questions Micha Frazer-Carroll asks as she reveals mental health to be an urgent political concern that needs deeper understanding beyond today's 'awareness-raising' campaigns. Exploring the history of asylums and psychiatry; the relationship between disability justice, queer liberation and mental health; art and creativity; prisons and abolition; and alternative models of care; Mad World is a radical and hopeful antidote to pathologisation, gatekeeping and the policing of imagination."--Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

London : Pluto Press, 2023.

Physical description

vi, 182 pages ; 20 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction -- Asylums -- 'Knowing' mental health today -- Why work is sickening -- Disability/possibility -- Diagnosing diagnosis -- On disavowal and disorder -- Art as a Mad liberation tool -- Law and disorder -- Other possibilities -- Conclusion : a future for mental health.

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Where to find it

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    History of Medicine
    PP.AN
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 0745346715
  • 9780745346717