Mad World: The Politics Of Mental Health (Outspoken By Pluto)

Mental health affects us all, and yet it remains elusive as a concept. Does getting a diagnosis help or hinder it? How is mental well-being, which is often incredibly personal, driven by widespread societal suffering? Can it be a social construct and real at the same time? These are some of the big questions Micha Frazer-Carroll asks as she reveals mental health to be a political issue that needs deeper understanding beyond today's 'awareness raising' campaigns. Exploring the history of asylums and psychiatry; the relationship between disability and broader liberation movements; alternative models of care; the relationship between art and mental health; law and the decarceration of mental health, Mad World is a radical and hopeful antidote to pathologization, gatekeeping and the policing of imagination.

• | Author: Micha Frazer-Carroll
• | Publisher: Pluto Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 05, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 192 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0745346715
• | ISBN-13: 9780745346717