AHP readers may be interested in the soon-to-be-released The Routledge International Handbook of Mad Studies edited by Peter Beresford and Jasna Russo. The book is described as follows:
By drawing broadly on international thinking and experience, this book offers a critical exploration of Mad Studies and advances its theory and practice.
Comprised of 34 chapters written by international leading experts, activists and academics, this handbook introduces and advances Mad Studies, as well as exploring resistance and criticism, and clarifying its history, ideas, what it is, and what it can offer. It presents examples of mad studies in action, covering initiatives that have been taken, their achievements and what can be learned from them. In addition to sharing research findings and evidence, the book offers examples and insights for advancing understandings of experiences of madness and distress from the perspectives of those who have (had) those experiences, and also explores ways of supporting people oppressed by conventional understandings and systems.
This book will be of interest to all scholars and students of Mad Studies, disability studies, sociology, socio- legal studies, mental health and medicine more generally.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Peter Beresford
Part 1: Mad Studies and political organising of people with psychiatric experience
The international foundations of Mad Studies: Knowledge generated in collective action
Jasna Russo
Reflections on power, knowledge and change
Mary O’Hagan
Shifting identities as reflective personal responses to political changes
Bhargavi V Davar
A crazy, warrior and “respondona” Peruvian: All personal transformation is social and political
Brenda Del Rocio Valdivia Quiroz
Reflections on survivor knowledge and Mad Studies
Irit Shimrat
Speaking for ourselves: An early UK survivor activist’s account
Peter Campbell
Fostering community responsibility: Perspectives from the Pan African Network of people with psychosocial disabilities
Daniel Mwesigwa Iga
Using survivor knowledge to influence public policy in the United States
Darby Penney
The social movement of people with psychosocial disabilities in Japan: Strategies for taking the struggle to academia
Naoyuki Kirihara
Re-writing the master narrative: A prerequisite for mad liberation
Wilda L. White
Part 2: Situating Mad Studies
A genealogy of the concept of “Mad Studies”
Richard A. Ingram
How is Mad Studies different from anti-psychiatry and critical psychiatry?
Geoffrey Reaume
Mad Studies and disability studies
Hannah Morgan
Weaponizing absent knowledges: Countering the violence of mental health law
Fleur Beaupert, Liz Brosnan
Part 3: Mad Studies and knowledge equality
The subjects of oblivion: Subalterity, sanism, and racial erasure
Ameil Joseph
Institutional ceremonies? The (im)possibilities of transformative co-production in mental health
Sarah Carr
“Are you experienced?” The use of experiential knowledge in mental health and its contribution to Mad Studies
Danny Taggart
De-pathologising motherhood
Angela Sweeney, Billie Lever Taylor
The professional regulation of madness in nursing and social work
Jennifer Poole, Chris Chapman, Sonia Meerai, Joanne Azevedo, Abir Gebara, Nargis Hussein, Rebecca Ballen
The (global) rise of anti-stigma campaigns
Jana-Maria Fey, China Mills
Part 4: Doing Mad Studies
Why we must talk about de-medicalization
María Isabel Cantón
Imagining non-carceral futures with(in) Mad Studies
Pan Karanikolas
Madness in the time of war: Post-war reflections on practice and research beyond the borders of psychiatry and development
Reima Ana Maglajlic
The architecture of my madness
Caroline Yeo
Re-conceptualising suicidality: Towards collective intersubjective responses
David Webb
De-coupling and re-coupling violence and madness
Andrea Daley, Trish Van Katwyk
Upcycling recovery: Potential alliances of recovery, inequality and Mad Studies Lynn Tang
Bodies, boundaries, b/orders: A recent critical history of differentialism and structural adjustment
Essya M. Nabbali
Spirituality, psychiatry, and Mad Studies
Lauren J. Tenney
Taking Mad Studies back out into the community
David Reville
Interrogating Mad Studies in the academy: Bridging the community/academy divide
Victoria Armstrong and Brenda LeFrançois
Madness, decolonisation and mental health activism in Africa
Femi Eromosele
Navigating voices, politics, positions amidst peers: Resonances and dissonances in India
Prateeksha Sharma
‘Madness’ as a term of division, or rejection
Colin King
Afterword: The ethics of making knowledge together
Jasna Russo
Postscript: Mad Studies in a maddening world
Peter Beresford