Interrogating Psychiatric Narratives of Madness

Andrea Daley is Professor at the School of Social Work, Renison University College, at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She practices critical research methods to engage politics of knowledge building with communities towards the goal of social transformation.Merrick D. Pilling is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Windsor, Canada. His work employs an intersectional, anti-racist lens that emphasizes the importance of lived experience, relevance to the communities being researched, and making changes to the systems that create marginalization.

• Documenting Lives.- Cultural Representations of Gender in Psychiatric Charts.- Getting Bi: The Psychiatrization of Bisexuality.- Race, Colonialism, and 'Rationality' in Psychiatric Charts.- A Critical Reading of Delusions in Psychiatric Charts.- Restraint Use and Seclusion: Rhetoric of Innocence.- Discipline & the Project of Self-Improvement.

“The volume should be of interest to a readership concerned with interdisciplinarity and dialogue across academic and practitioner disciplinary boundaries. For the educators of mental health professionals, the chapters will be a useful resource … .” (Isobel Moore and Philip John Archard, Journal of Social Work Practice, May 2, 2023)