Mad world : the politics of mental health
Frazer-Carroll, Micha2023
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Mental health affects us all, and yet it remains elusive as a concept. Does getting a diagnosis help or hinder? How is mental wellbeing, which is often incredibly personal, driven by widespread societal suffering? Can it be a social construct and real at the same time? These are some of the big questions Micha Frazer-Carroll asks as she reveals mental health to be a political issue that needs deeper understanding beyond today's 'awareness raising' campaigns. Exploring the history of asylums and psychiatry; the relationship between disability and broader liberation movements; alternative models of care; the relationship between art and mental health; law and the decarceration of mental health, 'Mad World' is a radical and hopeful antidote to pathologisation, gatekeeping and the policing of imagination.
Main title:
Mad world : the politics of mental health / Micha Frazer-Carroll.
Author:
Frazer-Carroll, Micha, author
Imprint:
London : Pluto Press, 2023.
Collation:
vi, 182 pages ; 20 cm.
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Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780745346717 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
362.2
Language:
English
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BRN:
2383063
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