Interrogating Psychiatric Narratives Of Madness

Author : Andrea Daley,Merrick D. Pilling
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030836924

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Interrogating Psychiatric Narratives of Madness by Andrea Daley,Merrick D. Pilling Pdf

This book challenges the perception of the psychiatric chart as a neutral and objective text. The chapters included in this book coalesce to reveal the psychiatric chart as a text that is, in fact, “storied” by institutional ideology that reflects, reinforces, reinterprets, and, at times, resists gendered, raced, sexualized, and classed norms, values, and presuppositions. Intersectional analysis highlights the nuanced ways in which dominant ideologies are activated in chart documentation to produce qualitatively specific psychiatric narratives of distress and related responses in the psychiatric institution. The book serves as a much-needed resource for mental health professionals, education and training programs, and researchers that meaningfully takes into account the social and structural materiality of people’s lives and its impact on experiences of distress. It will also appeal to scholars investigating equity in health care across the fields of Critical Psychology, Disability Studies, Social Work, Allied Health, Mad Studies and Social Justice.

Author : Merrick Daniel Pilling
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030904135

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Queer and Trans Madness by Merrick Daniel Pilling Pdf

This book urges those invested in social justice for 2SLGBTQ people to interrogate the biomedical model of mental illness beyond the diagnoses that specifically target gender and sexual dissidence. In this first comprehensive application of Mad Studies to queer and trans experiences of mental distress, Pilling advances a broad critique of the biomedical model of mental illness as it pertains to 2SLGBTQ people, arguing that Mad Studies is especially amenable to making sense of queer and trans madness. Based on empirical data from two qualitative research studies, this book includes analyses of inpatient chart documentation from a psychiatric hospital and interviews with those who have experienced distress. Using an intersectional lens, Pilling critically examines what constitutes mental health treatment and the impacts of medical strategies on mad queer and trans people. Ultimately, Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice explores the emancipatory promise of queer and trans madness, advocating for more resources to respond to crisis and distress in ways that are non-coercive, non-carceral, and honour autonomy as well as interdependence within 2SLGBTQ communities.

Author : Robert Ellis,Sarah Kendal,Steven J. Taylor
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030695590

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Voices in the History of Madness by Robert Ellis,Sarah Kendal,Steven J. Taylor Pdf

This book presents new perspectives on the multiplicity of voices in the histories of mental ill-health. In the thirty years since Roy Porter called on historians to lower their gaze so that they might better understand patient-doctor roles in the past, historians have sought to place the voices of previously silent, marginalised and disenfranchised individuals at the heart of their analyses. Today, the development of service-user groups and patient consultations have become an important feature of the debates and planning related to current approaches to prevention, care and treatment. This edited collection of interdisciplinary chapters offers new and innovative perspectives on mental health and illness in the past and covers a breadth of opinions, views, and interpretations from patients, practitioners, policy makers, family members and wider communities. Its chronology runs from the early modern period to the twenty-first century and includes international and transnational analyses from Europe, North America, Asia and Africa, drawing on a range of sources and methodologies including oral histories, material culture, and the built environment. Chapter 4 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Gail A. Hornstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351535953

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Agnes's Jacket by Gail A. Hornstein Pdf

In a Victorian-era German asylum, seamstress Agnes Richter painstakingly stitched a mysterious autobiographical text into every inch of the jacket she created from her institutional uniform. Despite every attempt to silence them, hundreds of other psychiatric patients have managed to get their stories out, or to publish them on their own. Today, in a vibrant network of peer-advocacy groups all over the world, those with firsthand experience of emotional distress are working together to unravel the mysteries of madness and to help one another recover. Agnes’s Jacket tells their story, focusing especially on the Hearing Voices Network (HVN), an international collaboration of professionals, people with lived experience, and their families and friends who have been working to develop an alternative approach to coping with voices, visions, and other extreme states that is empowering and useful and does not start from the assumption that such people have a chronic illness. A vast gulf exists between the way medicine explains psychiatric conditions and the experiences of those who suffer. Hornstein’s work helps us to bridge that gulf, guiding us through the inner lives of those diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar illness, depression, and paranoia, and emerging with nothing less than a new model for understanding one another and ourselves.

Author : Merrick Daniel Pilling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030904148

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Queer and Trans Madness by Merrick Daniel Pilling Pdf

Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice urges those invested in social justice for 2SLGBTQ people to interrogate the biomedical model of mental illness beyond the diagnoses that specifically target gender and sexual dissidence. In this first comprehensive application of Mad Studies to queer and trans experiences of mental distress, Pilling advances a broad critique of the biomedical model of mental illness as it pertains to 2SLGBTQ people, arguing that Mad Studies is especially amenable to making ense of queer and trans madness. Based on empirical data from two qualitative research studies, this book includes analyses of inpatient chart documentation from a psychiatric hospital and interviews with those who have experienced distress. Using an intersectional lens, Pilling critically examines what constitutes mental health treatment and the impacts of medical strategies on mad queer and trans people. Ultimately, Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice explores the emancipatory promise of queer and trans madness, advocating for more resources to respond to crisis and distress in ways that are non-coercive, non-carceral, and honour autonomy as well as interdependence within 2SLGBTQ communities. Merrick Daniel Pilling is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies in the School of Social Work at the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He is co-editor of Interrogating Psychiatric Narratives of Madness: Documented Lives.

Author : Alec Grant,Fran Biley,Hannah Walker
Publisher : Pccs Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1906254389

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Our Encounters with Madness by Alec Grant,Fran Biley,Hannah Walker Pdf

The 'Our Encounters with - ' series collect together unnmediated, unsanitised narratives by mental health service-users, psychiatric survivors and carers.

Author : Jennifer M. Kilty,Erin Dej
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319897493

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Containing Madness by Jennifer M. Kilty,Erin Dej Pdf

This collection explores the discursive production and treatment of mental distress as it is mediated by gender and race in different institutional contexts. Featuring analyses of the prison, the psychiatric hospital, immigration detention, and other locales, this book explores the multiple interlocking oppressions that result in the diagnosis and medical, psychological, and psychiatric treatment of individuals constituted as ‘mentally ill’ at various historical moments and across institutional spaces. Contributors unpack how feminine, masculine, and transgender bodies are made up as mentally ill/sick/deviant by way of biomedical and institutional knowledges and discourses and are intervened upon by different institutional and expert authorities.

Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Mental illness
ISBN : OCLC:1011708862

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Madness by Roy Porter Pdf

A fascinating narrative history of insanity illuminates current debates abouthow we define and treat mental illness. 28 halftones.

Author : Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780191090509

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Madness and the demand for recognition by Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed Pdf

Madness is a complex and contested term. Through time and across cultures it has acquired many formulations: for some, madness is synonymous with unreason and violence, for others with creativity and subversion, elsewhere it is associated with spirits and spirituality. Among the different formulations, there is one in particular that has taken hold so deeply and systematically that it has become the default view in many communities around the world: the idea that madness is a disorder of the mind. Contemporary developments in mental health activism pose a radical challenge to psychiatric and societal understandings of madness. Mad Pride and mad-positive activism reject the language of mental 'illness' and 'disorder', reclaim the term 'mad', and reverse its negative connotations. Activists seek cultural change in the way madness is viewed, and demand recognition of madness as grounds for identity. But can madness constitute such grounds? Is it possible to reconcile delusions, passivity phenomena, and the discontinuity of self often seen in mental health conditions with the requirements for identity formation presupposed by the theory of recognition? How should society respond? Guided by these questions, this book is the first comprehensive philosophical examination of the claims and demands of Mad activism. Locating itself in the philosophy of psychiatry, Mad studies, and activist literatures, the book develops a rich theoretical framework for understanding, justifying, and responding to Mad activism's demand for recognition.

Author : Susan J. Hubert
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0874137438

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Questions of Power by Susan J. Hubert Pdf

"Questions of Power: The Politics of Women's Madness Narratives explores the ways in which women have used autobiographical writing in response to psychiatric symptoms and treatment. By addressing health and healing from the patient's perspective, the study raises questions about psychiatric practice and mental health policy. The ultimate thesis is that autobiographies by women psychiatric patients can expose many of the problems in psychiatric treatment and indicate directions for change."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Cristina Hanganu-Bresch,Carol Berkenkotter
Publisher : Studies in Rhetoric & Communic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1643360256

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Diagnosing Madness by Cristina Hanganu-Bresch,Carol Berkenkotter Pdf

"This book is the result of years of research spent in archives and libraries on two continents in an attempt to decipher the textual footprints of asylum patients. Some of the results of this research have already been published in Carol Berkenkotter's book Patient Tales: Case Histories and the Uses of Narrative in Psychiatry, as well as in various journals. Here, we focus on tracing not just the patients' medical histories but also their life stories before they became patients and after they were discharged. We find that the diagnosis event is the watershed moment in their lives, and so we are looking for the textual--and textural--makeup of this decision. This was our own version of "starring the text," in the words of Alan Gross, of placing rhetorical analysis of the written word at the center of the web of cultural practices that made asylums possible in the nineteenth century; thus, we observe firsthand the psychiatric argumentation practices that led to diagnosis and the patients' efforts to counter those arguments. For a while we inhabited a world of fading calligraphy inscribed in esoterically paginated dusty tomes, amalgamated genres that also hosted occasional patient letters and artifacts (drawings, paintings, diagrams, objets d'art sometimes engraved in what appeared to be the patient's own blood). Whenever possible, case notes, certificates, and private correspondence were copied, transcribed, and analyzed (in some instance coded); and while we used various analytical frameworks, for the most part we let the texts guide us to what we hoped to be intelligible, plausible approximations of the embodied experience of mental illness for those who found themselves in an asylum" --

Author : Dr Daniel R Berger II
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0997607750

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The Insanity of Madness by Dr Daniel R Berger II Pdf

For much of the twentieth century, psychiatry, psychology and social theory have held that mental illness, historically known as madness, cannot be objectively defined. This fluidity of concept is especially striking in light of the dogmatism that continues to characterize these fields of study and practice. However, the unmistakable failure to effectively treat the widespread evidence of mental struggle points to the possibility that psychiatric theory has gotten something wrong or missed something at the foundational level. Could it be that mental illness is recognizable across all cultures and all eras, that it has a clear definition which was directly stated in the past and still is implied in modern psychiatry through the DSM-5? This book explores what mental illness or madness is; furthermore, it asserts that mental illness does indeed have a clear definition, a distinct cause and a reliable remedy. No one will argue that fact that the diagnoses of mental illness are of epidemic proportions. But this does not have to be the case: the remedy is clear; the madness can stop.

Author : John Kenneth Wing
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015064796363

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Reasoning about Madness by John Kenneth Wing Pdf

Author : Bynum, William F. Bynum,Roy Porter,Michael Shepherd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Psychiatric hospitals
ISBN : OCLC:904263682

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The Anatomy of Madness by Bynum, William F. Bynum,Roy Porter,Michael Shepherd Pdf

Author : Spandler, Helen,Anderson, Jill,Bob Sapey
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447314578

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Madness, Distress and the Politics of Disablement by Spandler, Helen,Anderson, Jill,Bob Sapey Pdf

An exploration of the relationship between madness, distress and disability, bringing together leading scholars and activists from Europe, North America, Australia and India.