Mad World : The Politics of Mental Health

Author(s): Frazer-Carroll, Micha,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 05/07/2023,
Pagination: 192 pages,
Series: Outspoken by Pluto,
Imprint: Pluto Press,
Published By: PLUTO PRESS ,
Book Classification: Care of the mentally ill,
Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 17
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9780745346717

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'A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health' DazedMental health is a political issue, but we often discuss it as a personal one. How is the current mental health crisis connected to capitalism, racism and other social issues? In a different world, how might we transform the ways that we think about mental health, diagnosis and treatment?These are some of the big questions Micha Frazer-Carroll asks as she reveals mental health to be an urgent political concern that needs deeper understanding beyond today's 'awareness-raising' campaigns.

Exploring the history of asylums and psychiatry; the relationship between disability justice, queer liberation and mental health; art and creativity; prisons and abolition; and alternative models of care; Mad World is a radical and hopeful antidote to pathologisation, gatekeeping and the policing of imagination.