Introduction: Psychiatric Documentation, Power, and Violence

A Literature Review of Mad Studies as Critical Pedagogy: What is Mad Studies, and How Does it Implicate the Education of Adults?

“…However, a search of each book's listing on their respective publisher's website found less than half had "Mad Studies" in its title, abstract, keywords, or table of contents. Of these 27 works, Containing Madness (Kitty & Dej, 2018); Critical Inquires for Social Justice in Mental Health (Morrow & Malcoe, 2017); Mad Matters: A Critical Reader in Canadian Mad Studies (LeFrançois et al, 2013); Madness, Distress and the Politics of Disablement (Spandler et al, 2015); Searching for a Rose Garden: Challenging Psychiatry, Fostering Mad Studies (Russo & Sweeney, 2016); Interrogating psychiatric narratives of madness: Documented lives (Daley & Pilling, 2021); Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health (Donaldson, 2018); and The Routledge International Handbook of Mad Studies (Beresford & Russo, 2021), met the search criteria. To broaden the sample, I searched Google Scholar using Mad Studies as my principal search term, which produced two additional books asserting a Mad Studies focus: Queer and trans madness: Struggles for social justice (Pilling, 2022) and Madness and the demand for recognition: A philosophical inquiry into identity and mental health activism (Rashed, 2019).…”