Madness, Distress and the Politics of Disablement / / ed. by Helen Spandler, Jill Anderson, Bob Sapey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Complete eBook-Package 2015
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Jill,; Barker, Meg John,; Beresford, Peter,; Briggs, Shelley,; Cameron, Fiona,; Church, Kathryn,; Davar, Bhargavi V,; Graby, Steve,; Hopper, Kim,; Iantaffi, Alex,; Jones, Nev,; Keating, Frank,; Kelly, Timothy,; McKeown, Mick,; Mills, China,; Minkowitz, An interview with Tina,; Morris, Jenny,; Penson, William J,; Plumb, Anne,; Reeve, Donna,; Russo, Jasna,; Sapey, Bob,; Shulkes, Debra,; Spandler, Helen,; Tew, Jerry,; Wallcraft, Jan,; Webb, Helen Spandler interviews David,
• HerausgeberIn: Anderson, Jill,; Sapey, Bob,; Spandler, Helen,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- About the authors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Disjunctures between disability and madness -- Unreasonable adjustments? Applying disability policy to madness and distress -- What we talk about when we talk about disability: making sense of debates in the European user/survivor movement -- Inconvenient complications: on the heterogeneities of madness and their relationship to disability -- Unsettling impairment: mental health and the social model of disability -- Theorising distress and disablement -- Towards a socially situated model of mental distress -- The Capabilities Approach and the social model of mental health -- Psycho-emotional disablism in the lives of people experiencing mental distress -- Applying social models of disability -- Psycho-emotional disablism, complex trauma and women’s mental distress -- Linking ‘race’, mental health and a social model of disability: what are the possibilities? -- Social models of disability and sexual distress -- The social model of disability and suicide prevention -- Universalising disability policy -- Advancing the rights of users and survivors of psychiatry using the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities -- 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 -- The global politics of disablement: assuming impairment and erasing complexity -- Disabilities, colonisation and globalisation: how the very possibility of a disability identity was compromised for the ‘insane’ in India -- Meeting places -- Neurodiversity: bridging the gap between the disabled people’s movement and the mental health system survivors’ movement? -- Distress and disability: not you, not me, but us? -- ‘It’s complicated’: blending disability and mad studies in the corporatising university -- Solidarity across difference: organising for democratic alliances -- Beyond the horizon: the landscape of madness, distress and disability -- References -- Index