Mad Matters

Brenda A. LeFrançois is Associate Professor of Social Work at Memorial University of Newfoundland.Robert Menzies is Professor of Sociology at Simon Fraser University.Geoffrey Reaume is Associate Professor of Critical Disability Studies at York University.

This book carves out the terrain of a vital and robust new field of study and makes clear its many points of connection to lived experiences of madness, activist movements, and related scholarly disciplines. The writing in Mad Matters comes from diverse personal and scholarly perspectives, and covers an impressive range of relevant topics, yet it all consistently advances the volume's goal of explaining and demonstrating the scope and radical significance of Mad Studies. In short, the anthology is delightfully readable and theoretically rich."" - Joanne Woiak, University of Washington

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroducing Mad StudiesPart I: Mad People's History, Evolving Culture, and LanguageChapter 1: The Movement, Mel StarkmanChapter 2: Women in 19th Century Asylums: Three Exemplary Women; A New Brunswick Hero, Nérée St-Amand and Eugène LeBlancChapter 3: Democracy Is a Very Radical Idea, Lanny Beckman and Megan J. DaviesChapter 4: What Makes Us a Community? Reflections on Building Solidarity in Anti-Sanist Praxis, Shaindl DiamondChapter 5: A Rose by Any Other Name: Naming and the Battle against Psychiatry, Bonnie BurstowPart II: Mad EngagementsChapter 6: ""Breaking open the bone"": Storying, Sanism, and Mad Grief, Jennifer M. Poole and Jennifer WardChapter 7: Mad as Hell: The Objectifying Experience of Symbolic Violence, Ji-Eun LeeChapter 8: A Denial of Being: Psychiatrization as Epistemic Violence, Maria LiegghioChapter 9: Mad Success: What Could Go Wrong When Psychiatry Employs Us as ""Peers""? Erick FabrisPart III: Critiques of Psychiatry: Practice and PedagogyChapter 10: The Tragic Farce of ""Community Mental Health Care,"" Irit ShamratChapter 11: Electroshock: Torture as ""Treatment,"" Don WeitzChapter 12: Is Mad Studies Emerging as a New Field of Inquiry? David RevilleChapter 13: Making Madness Matter in Academic Practice, Kathryn ChurchPart IV: Law, Public Policy, and Media MadnessChapter 14: Mad Patients as Legal Intervenors in Court, Lucy CostaChapter 15: Removing Civil Rights: How Dare We? Gordone WarmeChapter 16: ""They should not be allowed to do this to the homeless and mentally ill"": Minimum Separation Distance Bylaws Reconsidered, Lilith ""Chava"" FinklerChapter 17: The Making and Marketing of Mental Health Literacy in Canada, Kimberley White and M.C. PikeChapter 18: Pitching Mad: News Media and the sychiatric Survivor Perspective, Rob WipondPart V: Social Justice, Madness, and Identity PoliticsChapter 19: Mad Nation? Thinking through Race, Class, and Mad Identity Politics, Rachel GormanChapter 20: Whither Indigenizing the Mad Movement? Theorizing the Social Relations of Race and Madness through Conviviality, Louise TamChapter 21: Spaces in Place: Negotiating Queer In/visibility within Psychiatric and Mental Health Service Settings, Andrea DaleyChapter 22: Rerouting the Weeds: The Move from Criminalizing to Pathologizing ""Troubled Youth"" in The Review of the Roots of Youth Violence, Jijian VoronkaChapter 23: Recovery: Progressive Paradigm or Neoliberal Smokescreen? Marina MorrowGlossary of TermsReferencesCase Law and StatutesAbout the Editors and Contributors