This article seeks to enhance criminology's understanding of the disability group home as a
targeted site for confining and regulating disabled bodies. In particular, it seeks to extend …

While mental health services continue to make efforts toward greater cultural sensitivity,
research, education, and practice in these fields remain grounded primarily in Western …

Over the past 55 years, in the United States, we have witnessed shifts and changes in
mental health treatment practice and policy focused on 'psychosis.'Alarmingly, in this same …

This chapter discusses child psychiatrisation as a form of oppression against children. Using
a mad studies framing it deconstructs this oppression, including providing an analysis of …

The body can be restrained for long periods using psychiatric drugs. Psychiatric patients in
the 1970s started to fight against such practices, used primarily on people considered …

In this chapter, I explore several key questions: What does the circulation of the figure of the
“mad Muslim terrorist” do for secular-liberal Western democracies and their subjects? What …

This paper examines how fat and disabled subjects may be taught to appear as happy
through biopedagogies in order to manage shame and disgust evoked by their unruly, non …

The use of coercion is one of the defining issues of mental health care. Since the earliest
attempts to contain and treat the mentally ill, power imbalances have been evident and a …

Este trabalho nasce das inquietações sobre desafios emergentes no processo da reforma
psiquiátrica no Brasil, com destaque para o fenômeno da nova institucionalização …

Using various methods and strategies of Critical Discourse Analysis, this article
demonstrates how certain influential nursing texts generate a certain biomedical framing of …