ISBN:
9781442629981
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (414 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.6098135
Keywords:
Violence-Social aspects
;
Violence-Psychological aspects
;
Mental illness-Social aspects
;
Violence-Social aspects.
;
Violence-Psychological aspects.
;
Mental illness-Social aspects
;
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Abstract:
Using a complex and nuanced approach to madness, violence, and power, this book challenges conventional research on psychology, social work, law, medicine, and public policy.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Dispatches on Violence -- 1 The Risk of Violence -- 2 A Personal Account of Mental Distress in Motherhood -- 3 Patient Engagement and the Process of Self-Empowerment in Secure and Forensic Psychiatric Settings in the United Kingdom -- 4 The Opposite of Violence -- Part II: Prevailing Problems -- 5 Enacting Violence and Care: Neo-liberalism, Knowledge Claims, and Resistance -- 6 Slow Death through Evidence-Based Research -- 7 Changing Directions or Staying the Course? Recovery, Gender, and Sexuality in Canada's Mental Health Strategy -- 8 Homage to Spencer: The Politics of "Treatment" and "Choice" in Neo-liberal Times -- 9 Indigenizing the Narrative: A Conversation on Disability Assessments -- 10 Madness, Violence, and Media -- Part III: Law as Violence -- 11 Contemporary Forms of Legislative Imprisonment and Colonial Violence in Forensic Mental Health -- 12 The (Un)Writing of Risk on My Mad Pregnant Body: A Mad Feminist Political Economy Analysis of Social Reproduction and Epistemic Violence under Neo-liberalism -- 13 Uncovering Law's Multiple Violences at the Inquest into the Death of Ashley Smith -- 14 Recounting Huronia: A Reflection on Legal Discourse and the Weight of Injustice -- 15 Madding the Muslim Terrorist: Orientalist Psychology in Canada's "War on Terror" -- Part IV: Geographies of Violence -- 16 Coercive Practices in Mental Health Services: Stories of Recalcitrance, Resistance, and Legitimation -- 17 Institutional Oppression and Violence as Self-Defence -- 18 "Gravity and Grace": Acknowledging Restraint and Seclusion as a Violence -- 19 Mad, Bad, and Stuck in the Hole: Carceral Segregation as Slow Violence -- 20 Madness and Gentrification on Queen West: Violence and the Transformations of Parkdale and the Queen Street Site -- Concluding Thoughts -- Glossary.
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