Madness, violence, and power : a critical collection / Andrea Daley, Lucy Costa, Peter Beresford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beresford, Peter, editor.

Costa, Lucy, editor.

Daley, Andrea, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Social aspects.

Violence.

Violence--Psychological aspects.

Mental illness--Social aspects.

Mental illness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Madness, Violence, and Power: A Critical Collection disengages from the common forms of discussion about violence related to mental health service users and survivors which position those users or survivors as more likely to enact violence or become victims of violence. Instead, this book seeks to broaden understandings of violence manifest in the lives of mental health service users/survivors, 'push' current considerations to explore the impacts of systems and institutions that manage 'abnormality', and to create and foster space to explore the role of our own communities in justice and accountability dialogues. This critical collection constitutes an integral contribution to critical scholarship on violence and mental illness by addressing a gap in the existing literature by broadening the "violence lens," and inviting an interdisciplinary conversation that is not narrowly biomedical and neuro-scientific.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword / Whitaker, Robert

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Daley, Andrea / Costa, Lucy / Beresford, Peter

Part I: Dispatches on Violence

Introduction

1. The Risk of Violence

2. A Personal Account of Mental Distress in Motherhood

3. Patient Engagement and the Process of Self-Empowerment in Secure and Forensic Psychiatric Settings in the United Kingdom / Markham, Sarah

4. The Opposite of Violence / Zwarenstein, Carlyn

Part II: Prevailing Problems

5. Enacting Violence and Care: Neo-liberalism, Knowledge Claims, and Resistance / Van Veen, Christopher / Teghtsoonian, Katherine / Morrow, Marina

6. Slow Death through Evidence-Based Research / Voronka, Jijian

7. Changing Directions or Staying the Course? Recovery, Gender, and Sexuality in Canada's Mental Health Strategy / Pilling, Merrick

8. Homage to Spencer: The Politics of "Treatment" and "Choice" in Neo-liberal Times / O'Leary, Meghann / Ben-Moshe, Liat

9. Indigenizing the Narrative: A Conversation on Disability Assessments / Raju, Priya / Penak, Nicole

10. Madness, Violence, and Media / Mcwade, Brigit

Part III: Law as Violence

11. Contemporary Forms of Legislative Imprisonment and Colonial Violence in Forensic Mental Health / Joseph, Ameil J.

12. The (Un)Writing of Risk on My Mad Pregnant Body: A Mad Feminist Political Economy Analysis of Social Reproduction and Epistemic Violence under Neo-liberalism / Leblanc Haley, Tobin

13. Uncovering Law's Multiple Violences at the Inquest into the Death of Ashley Smith / Sheldon, C. Tess / Spector, Karen R. / Birdsell, Mary

14. Recounting Huronia: A Reflection on Legal Discourse and the Weight of Injustice / Rinaldi, Jen / Rossiter, Kate

15. Madding the Muslim Terrorist: Orientalist Psychology in Canada's "War on Terror" / Kanji, Azeezah

Part IV: Geographies of Violence

16. Coercive Practices in Mental Health Services: Stories of Recalcitrance, Resistance, and Legitimation / Mckeown, Mick / Scholes, Amy / Jones, Fiona / Aindow, Will

17. Institutional Oppression and Violence as Self-Defence / Lee-Evoy, Janet

18. "Gravity and Grace": Acknowledging Restraint and Seclusion as a Violence / Reel, Kevin

19. Mad, Bad, and Stuck in the Hole: Carceral Segregation as Slow Violence / Kilty, Jennifer M. / Lehalle, Sandra

20. Madness and Gentrification on Queen West: Violence and the Transformations of Parkdale and the Queen Street Site / Losman, Ben

Concluding Thoughts / Daley, Andrea / Costa, Lucy / Beresford, Peter

Glossary

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

1-4426-2999-1

1-4426-2998-3

OCLC:

1099434878