This chapter presents an introduction of mad studies and its possibilities. It discusses some
of the emerging debates currently taking place within this in/discipline. It outlines what are …

13 Ethics, Research, and Advocacy: The Experiences of the NAOMI Patients Association in
Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Page 1 Introduction CAUTION This may have the ability to …

The biomedical approach to understanding and treating people's experiences of altered
states of mind and/or distress continues to dominate mental health policy, practice, and …

In this paper, I suggest that one way to bring mad perspectives and discussions about
saneism/mentalism—systemic discrimination against people who have been diagnosed as …

The paper presents an historical critical policy analysis of deinstitutionalisation and the
introduction of neoliberal forms of governance in mental health policy. It focuses particularly …

Through theoretical and empirical examination of legal frameworks for court diversion, this
book interrogates law's complicity in the debilitation of disabled people. In a post …

This qualitative study explores narrative interviews of street-involved individuals with mental
health issues and reflects on how they speak to experiences of both helpful and unhelpful …

This paper will offer an antidote to the axiom that jails and prisons are becoming “the new
asylums” in the US Without disregarding the reality of having disproportioned numbers of …

In a revealing article in the December 2010 issue of the Journal of American History,
historian Heather Ann Thompson argues that “focusing new historical attention... on the …

Although the consumer/survivor/ex-patient (c/s/x) movement has influenced mental health
services and human rights discourse for several decades, the broader movement's …