Synopses & Reviews
One of the ways that scholars and policy makers have attempted to address the problems of madness and distress is by applying theories and policies from disability, including the social model of disability. This book brings together leading scholars and activists from Europe, North America, Australia, and India to explore the challenges to that approach and the relationship among madness, distress, and disability.
Synopsis
This book explores the challenges of applying disability theory and policy, including the social model of disability, to madness and distress. It brings together leading scholars and activists from Europe, North America, Australia and India, to explore the relationship between madness, distress and disability. Whether mental health problems should be viewed as disabilities is a pressing concern, especially since the inclusion of psychosocial disability in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This book will appeal to policy makers, practitioners, activists and academics.
About the Author
Helen Spandler is a reader in mental health at the University of Central Lancashire.Jill Anderson coordinates the Mental Health in Higher Education project and is a doctoral student at Lancaster University.Bob Sapey is a founding member of Critical and Creative Approaches to Mental Health Practice.
Table of Contents
Foreword ~ Jenny Morris
Introduction ~ Bob Sapey, Helen Spandler and Jill Anderson
Part One: Disjunctures between disability and madness
Unreasonable adjustments? Applying disability policy to madness and distress ~ Helen Spandler and Jill Anderson
What we talk about when we talk about disability: making sense of debates in the European user/survivor movement ~ Jasna Russo and Debra Shulkes
Inconvenient complications: on the heterogeneities of madness and their relationship to disability ~ Nev Jones and Timothy Kelly
Unsettling impairment: mental health and the social model of disability ~ William J Penson
Part Two: Theorising distress and disablement
Towards a socially situated model of mental distress ~ Jerry Tew
The Capabilities Approach and the social model of mental health ~ Jan Wallcraft and Kim Hopper
Psycho-emotional disablism in the lives of people experiencing mental distress ~ Donna Reeve
Part Three: Applying social models of disability
Psycho-emotional disablism, complex trauma and women’s mental distress ~ Shelley Briggs and Fiona Cameron
Linking ‘race’, mental health and a social model of disability: what are the possibilities? ~ Frank Keating
Social models of disability and sexual distress ~ Meg John Barker and Alex Iantaffi
The social model of disability and suicide prevention ~ Helen Spandler interviews David Webb
Part Four: Universalising disability policy
Advancing the rights of users and survivors of psychiatry using the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ~ An interview with Tina Minkowitz
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: out of the frying pan into the fire? Mental health service users and survivors aligning with the disability movement ~ Anne Plumb
The global politics of disablement: assuming impairment and erasing complexity ~ China Mills
Disabilities, colonisation and globalisation: how the very possibility of a disability identity was compromised for the ‘insane’
in India ~ Bhargavi V Davar
Part Five: Meeting places
Neurodiversity: bridging the gap between the Disabled People's Movement and the Mental Health System Survivors' Movement? ~ Steve Graby
Distress and disability: not you, not me, but us? ~ Peter Beresford
'It’s complicated': blending disability and mad studies in the corporatising university ~ Kathryn Church
Solidarity across difference: organising for democratic alliances ~ Mick McKeown and Helen Spandler
Beyond the horizon: the landscape of madness, distress and disability ~ Jill Anderson, Helen Spandler and Bob Sapey