In 1981, Toronto activist Mel Starkman wrote:" An important new movement is sweeping
through the western world.... The'mad,'the oppressed, the ex-inmates of society's asylums …

The madness about which I'm writing is the madness that is more or less present in each
one of us and not only the madness that gets the psychiatric baptism by diagnosis of …

The Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental
hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into the psychiatrist; and of the madman (and …

The omnipresent psychiatric narrative of mental illness has always had its counter-narrative–
the life stories of people labelled mad. The relationship between these two accounts has …

Simply blaming the process of" deinstitutionalization" has been a convenient shorthand to
explain away the tragedy of how thousands of mentally ill people were committed to life on …

What happens when the mad are let out of the asylum and there is nowhere for them to go?
This hard-hitting and controversial new book traces the terms on which the mad occupy the …

The colonial government of southern Nigeria began to use asylums to confine the allegedly
insane in 1906. These asylums were administered by the British but confined Africans. Yet …

TT IS with deep satisfaction that I introduce this important book to the reading public. If the
lessons it teaches are understood and taken to heart by its readers, society will be the …

The phenomenon of false allegations of mental illness is as old as our first interactions as
human beings. Every one of us has described some other person as crazy or insane, and …

Mad Studies and survivor research are emerging fields of enquiry whose goals and
boundaries are continually being shaped. This paper aims to explore intersections between …