Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Mad world: the politics of mental health

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Outspoken by pluto seriesPublication details: Pluto Press 2023 StrandDescription: vi, 182 p. Includes bibliographical referencesISBN:
  • 9780745346717
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.2 F7M2
Summary: 'A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health' - Dazed 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. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745346717/mad-world/
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Item location Collection Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 25-B / Slot 1161 (0 Floor, East Wing) Non-fiction General Stacks 362.2 F7M2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 207259

'A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health' - Dazed

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.


https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745346717/mad-world/

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.