Full Description
Madness, Violence, and Powercommon 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
EditorsContributors Acknowledgements & DedicationsForewordRobert WhitakerIntroduction Andrea Daley, Lucy Costa, and Peter BeresfordPART I: Dispatches on Violence1. The Risk of Violence Anonymous Female2. A Personal Account of Mental Distress in Motherhood Anonymous3. Patient Engagement and the Process of Self-Empowerment in Secure and Forensic Psychiatric Settings in the UK Sarah Markham4. The Opposite of Violence Carly ZwarensteinPART II: Prevailing Problems 5. Enacting Violence and Care: Neoliberalism, Knowledge Claims and Resistance Christopher Van Veen, Katherine Teghtsoonian and Marina Morrow6. Slow Death through Evidence-Based Research Jijian Voronka7. Changing Directions or Staying the Course? Recovery, Gender, and Sexuality in Canada's Mental Health Strategy Merrick Pilling8. Homage to Spencer: The Politics of "Treatment" and "Choice" in Neoliberal Times Meghann O'Leary and Liat Ben-Moshe9. Indigenizing the Narrative: A Conversation on ODSP Assessments Priya Raju and Nicole Penak10. Madness, Violence and Media Brigit McWadePART III: Law as Violence11. Contemporary Forms of Legislative Imprisonment and Colonial Violence in Forensic Mental Health Ameil J. Joseph12. The (Un)Writing of Risk on my Mad Pregnant Body: A Mad Feminist Political Economy Analysis of Social Reproduction and Epistemic Violence Under NeoliberalismTobin Leblanc Haley13. Uncovering Law's Multiple Violences at the Inquest into the Death of Ashley SmithC. Tess Sheldon, Karen R. Spector, and Mary Birdsell14. Recounting Huronia: A Reflection on Legal Discourse and the Weight of InjusticeJen Rinaldi and Kate Rossiter15. Madding the Muslim Terrorist: Orientalist Psychology in Canada's `War on Terror'Azeezah KanjiPART IV: Geographies of Violence16. Coercive Practices in Mental Health Services: Stories of Recalcitrance, Resistance and LegitimationMick McKeown, Amy Scholes, Fiona Jones, and Will Aindow17. Institutional Oppression and Violence as Self-Defence Janet Lee-Evoy18. "Gravity and Grace": Acknowledging Restraint and Seclusion as ViolenceKevin Reel 19. Mad, Bad and Stuck in the `Hole': Carceral Segregation as Slow ViolenceJennifer M. Kilty and Sandra Lehalle20. Madness and Gentrification on Queen West: Violence and the Transformations of Parkdale and the Queen Street SiteBen LosmanConclusion Andrea Daley, Lucy Costa, and Peter BeresfordGlossary of Terms References Index
