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Madness, distress and the politics of disablement

Helen Spandler, Helen Spandler, Jill Anderson, and Bob Sapey

Abstract

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 explores the challenges of applying disability theory and policy, including the social model of disability, to madness, mental illness 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 and enhance our collective understanding of the issues.

Keywords: disability, disability studies, distress, madness, mental health, mental illness, psychosocial disability

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2015 Print ISBN-13: 9781447314578
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: January 2016 DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447314578.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Helen Spandler, editor
University of Central Lancashire, UK

Helen Spandler, editor
Lancaster University, UK

Jill Anderson, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

About the authors

Foreword

Introduction

Bob Sapey, Helen Spandler and Jill Anderson

Part One Disjunctures between disability and madness

One Unreasonable adjustments? Applying disability policy to madness and distress

Helen Spandler and Jill Anderson

Two What we talk about when we talk about disability: making sense of debates in the European user/survivor movement

Jasna Russo and Debra Shulkes

Three Inconvenient complications: on the heterogeneities of madness and their relationship to disability

Nev Jones and Timothy Kelly

Four Unsettling impairment: mental health and the social model of disability

William J Penson

Part Two Theorising distress and disablement

Five Towards a socially situated model of mental distress

Jerry Tew

Six The Capabilities Approach and the social model of mental health

Jan Wallcraft and Kim Hopper

Seven Psycho-emotional disablism in the lives of people experiencing mental distress

Donna Reeve

Part Three Applying social models of disability

Eight Psycho-emotional disablism, complex trauma and women’s mental distress

Shelley Briggs and Fiona Cameron

Nine Linking ‘race’, mental health and a social model of disability: what are the possibilities?

Frank Keating

Ten Social models of disability and sexual distress

Meg John Barker and Alex Iantaffi

Eleven The social model of disability and suicide prevention

Helen Spandler interviews David Webb

Part Four Universalising disability policy

Twelve Advancing the rights of users and survivors of psychiatry using the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

An interview with Tina Minkowitz

Thirteen 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

Anne Plumb

Fourteen The global politics of disablement: assuming impairment and erasing complexity

China Mills

Fifteen Disabilities, colonisation and globalisation: how the very possibility of a disability identity was compromised for the ‘insane’ in India

Bhargavi V Davar

Part Five Meeting places

Sixteen Neurodiversity: bridging the gap between the disabled people’s movement and the mental health system survivors’ movement?

Steve Graby

Seventeen Distress and disability: not you, not me, but us?

Peter Beresford

Eighteen ‘It’s complicated’: blending disability and mad studies in the corporatising university

Kathryn Church

Nineteen Solidarity across difference: organising for democratic alliances

Mick McKeown and Helen Spandler

Twenty Beyond the horizon: the landscape of madness, distress and disability

Jill Anderson, Helen Spandler and Bob Sapey

End Matter

References

Index