Psychiatry and the Business of Madness

Burstow, Bonnie

doi:10.1057/9781137503855

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“…Electric‐convulsive therapy (ECT) has been viewed as a torturous treatment lacking beneficial efficacy (Breggin, ; Spelman, ). Mad Studies has troubled this practice particularly when lacking consent and forced (Breggin, ; Burstow, ; Burstow, ).…”

Section: Representing Madnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…He appears in straightjackets and sings lyrics about taking pride in being out of ones’ mind and out of control. Such imagery depicts delinquency and madness as linked to violent dangerous unruly conduct (Burstow, ). Devices such as straight jackets and ECT represent devices and mechanisms that are part of a historic trajectory that seeks to discipline and control the conduct of Mad individuals (LeFrançois, Menzies, & Reaume, 2013).…”

Section: Representing Madnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Devices such as straight jackets and ECT represent devices and mechanisms that are part of a historic trajectory that seeks to discipline and control the conduct of Mad individuals (LeFrançois, Menzies, & Reaume, 2013). Mad Studies as a field has refuted the notion that Mad individuals are violent and instead posits and provides support to the contrary, where Mad persons are far more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators (Burstow, ; LeFrançois, Menzies, & Reaume, 2013).…”

Section: Representing Madnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This represents a refusal to be docile (Foucault, ) and comply unquestionably with psy‐expert orders. Mounting lawsuits against the Pharma drug cartels have exposed unethical research practices (See Burstow, ). Music represents an artful form of resistance, a way of speaking truth to power (Foucault, , ) and revealing injustices.…”

Section: Mad‐positive Music As Pedagogymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mad Studies and Mad-Positive Music

Castrodale¹

2019

New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development

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In this paper I unpack how Mad‐positive music may disrupt pathogizing mental‐health discourses and affirm Mad subjectivities. I draw on the field of Mad Studies to discuss how Mad‐positive music recognizes the subjugated knowledge(s) of self‐identifying Mad persons, troubles the dominance of psy‐disciplinary knowledge(s), and opens complex Mad‐positive spaces. I empirically draw on Mad musicians’ lyrical work to demonstrate how Mad music may be epistemologically‐dissonant with dominant mental health biomedical paradigms that pathologically root mental illness in individuals. Lastly, I suggest that Mad‐positive music inserts Mad counter knowledge(s), complex radical narratives, and draws directly on Mad persons’ lived experiences in ways that offer new pedagogical insights into contemporary mental‐health systemic practices.

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Section: Representing Madnessmentioning

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Section: Representing Madnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Representing Madnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Mad‐positive Music As Pedagogymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mad Studies and Mad-Positive Music

Castrodale¹

2019

New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development

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“…Many people, especially people with disabilities, experience systematic, systemic, state-sanctioned violence, including forced treatment in health care settings, especially in psychiatry. This experience may mean for some that the concept of consent is so debased that it is unredeemable and that psychiatry itself should be abolished (Burstow, 2015). Nevertheless, this paper strives to rescue the concept of consent, as we believe that it is the only current workable construct available to differentiate between morally acceptable and unacceptable interferences with the bodily integrity.…”

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Freedom to negotiate: a proposal extricating ‘capacity’ from ‘consent’

Brosnan¹,

Flynn

2017

International Journal of Law in Context

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In this paper we seek to radically reframe the legal construct of consent from a disability perspective. Drawing on feminist scholarship, and human rights standards around 'free and informed consent', we apply a concept of freedom to negotiate to laws regulating both consent to sex and medical treatment -key areas in which the legal agency of people with disabilities (especially people with cognitive disabilities) is routinely denied, restricted, or ignored.We set out the essential ingredients for reframing consent: namely, legal personhood, freedom to negotiate, and understanding. We also outline conditions (i.e. coercion, undue influence and power imbalances) which impede valid consent. This represents a first attempt to move beyond labelling adults with certain disabilities as lacking the 'mental capacity' necessary to give valid consent -in order to explore in more depth particular expressions of consent or refusal and seek new validity criteria, beyond the label of 'mental incapacity'.

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Preventing and responding to harm: Restorative and responsive mental health regulation in Victoria

Katterl

2022

Aust J Social Issues

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Mental health systems are built on imperfect foundations. Rather than reflect the "dark old days" of psychiatry, mental health systems, still, commit wide-spread breaches of mental health and human rights laws. AU T HOR BIOGR A PH YSimon Katterl is an independent researcher and consultant with lived experience of mental health issues. With completed degrees in law, politics and psychology, as well as ongoing studies in a Master of Regulation and Governance, he focuses on the intersection of human rights, regulation and mental health. Simon previously has previously worked at the Mental Health Complaints Commissioner, the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission, Victoria Legal Aid, the Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council, and has advised the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System.

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Psychiatry and the Business of Madness

Cited by 70 publications

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Mad Studies and Mad-Positive Music

Mad Studies and Mad-Positive Music

Freedom to negotiate: a proposal extricating ‘capacity’ from ‘consent’

Preventing and responding to harm: Restorative and responsive mental health regulation in Victoria

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