Mad Studies – A New Vision for Mental Health

Madness and the demand for recognition

Author: Editorial 23rd May 2019 0 Comments

Subtitled “A philosophical inquiry into identity and mental health activism”, this book has been written by Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed. The publishers say: “Madness is a complex and contested term. Through time and across cultures it has acquired many formulations: for some, madness is…
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collaborative practice

books, Clients & Patients, disability studies, identity, Mad activism, Mad Studies, Mohammed Rashed, philosophy, philosophy of psychiatry

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

Author: Editorial 26th February 2018 0 Comments

In this book (a 1964 abridged edition of a book published in 1961) Michel Foucault: “… examines the archaeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 – from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part…
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a wellbeing society

18th century, books, Culture & Society, history, insanity, Mad Studies, madness, Michel Foucault, Middle Ages

Searching for a Rose Garden: challenging psychiatry, fostering mad studies

Author: admin 30th June 2017 0 Comments

The publishers ( PCCS Books , 2016) of Searching for a Rose Garden describe it as “an incisive critique of all that is unhelpful about sanestream understandings of and responses to mental distress. Drawing on world-wide survivor activism and scholarship, it explores…
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collaborative practice, Key posts

books, Clients & Patients, Mad Studies, madness, paradigm shift, peer support, psychiatry, survivors, trauma-informed approaches

Mad people’s history and identity

Author: Editorial 27th April 2017 0 Comments

Mad People’s History and Identity : a five week free course by, about and for people who have lived experience of mental health issues. The course is interactive, full of discussion and very much about valuing each other as “experts by experience”. It looks at topics such as:…
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emotion-focused care

Clients & Patients, Education, Mad Studies, madness