Mad Matters, Second Edition

Idil Abdillahi is an Associate Professor in the School of Disability Studies, cross-appointed to the School of Social Work at Toronto Metropolitan University. Broadly, her work focuses on Black life, livability, carcerality, and refusal. She is the author or co-author of several texts, including Black Women Under State: Surveillance, Poverty, & the Violence of Social Assistance (2022) and BlackLife: Post BLM and The Struggle for Freedom (2019).Bren A. LeFrançois is a University Research Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Their research focuses on Mad Studies, the psychiatrization of children, and critical children's rights as well as the intersections of sanism, queerness, social activism, anarchist practices, and critical methodologies. Bren has taught courses in social work theory, critical mental health, child and youth practice, ethics, community development, and qualitative research.Geoffrey Reaume is Associate Professor in the Critical Disability Studies graduate program at York University where he teaches Mad Peoples' History and Disability History. He is a co-founder of the Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto and created the first university credit course on Mad People's History, which he has been teaching since 2000. He has published work on this topic for over thirty years.Robert Menzies is Professor Emeritus, Sociology, at Simon Fraser University and was the initiator of the first edition of Mad Matters (2013).

• Foreword to Second EditionIntroducing Mad Studies: The Introductory Chapter to the First EditionPART I: MAD PEOPLE'S HISTORY, RACISM, AND COLONIALISMChapter 1: Reinforcing Mad Studies: An Introduction to this Second Edition of Mad MattersChapter 2: Mad Activists, Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in Ontario, 1970s–2000Poetic Interruption i: AbolitionChapter 3: Remarkable Women in 19th Century AsylumsChapter 4: Indigeneity, Madness, and Spirit Injury: #LandBack4CeremonyPoetic Interruption ii: Like Father Like SonChapter 5: What's Wrong with Black Folk? Trauma, Black Psychiatrized Madness, and the State's ResponsePART II: MAD COMMUNITY AND MAD ENGAGEMENTSChapter 6: What Makes Us a Community? Reflections on Building Solidarity and Anti-Sanist PraxisChapter 7: A Rose by Any Other Name: Naming and the Battle Against PsychiatryPoetic Interruption iii: Psychiatric Protocol: Borderline Personality DisorderChapter 8: Incurable Pride: The Indigenous Tradition of Being UnimprovablePoetic Interruption iv: Healing is MedicineChapter 9: The Failed Promise of Recovery: Neoliberal Distortions and Coercive PracticesChapter 10: Wither Indigenizing the Mad Movement? Theorizing the Social Relations of Race and Madness through ConvivialityPART III: CRITIQUES OF PSYCHIATRY IN PRACTICEChapter 11: Locating Myself in Canadian Mad Studies and the World of Mad NarrativesChapter 12: Raced, Classed, and Gendered-Denials of Being: Psychiatrization as Epistemic ViolenceChapter 13: Still "Breaking Open the Bone": Revisiting Storying, Sanism, and Mad GriefPoetic Interruption v: untitledChapter 14: The Tragic Farce of "Community Mental Health Care"Chapter 15: Toward Mad Trans Liberation: The Necessity of Mad-Queer-Trans LensPART IV: MADDENING LAW, POLICY, ETHICS, AND MEDIAChapter 16: Madness on Trial: Justice as Epistemic ViolencePoetic Interruption vi: electroconvulsive therapy is the gold standardChapter 17: From Criminalizing to Pathologizing "Troubled Youth" in The Review of the Roots of Youth ViolenceChapter 18: Maddening Mental Health Nursing: A Mad-Engaged Critical Discourse AnalysisPoetic Interruption vii: Mood LensesChapter 19: Economies of the "Prison Mental Health Crisis" in Newfoundland and Labrador: Mad Making in/a Carceral InfrastructurePoetic Interruption viii: LostChapter 20: Boundary Dwelling as Disruptive Praxis: Social Work with an Unruly, Mad, Decolonial EthicChapter 21: Pitching Mad: News Media and the Psychiatric Survivor PerspectivePART V: SOCIAL JUSTICE, RESISTANCE AND MAD FUTURITIESChapter 22: Maddening Early Childhood Education and Care: Disrupting Normalcy, Unsettling Violent Pasts, and Promoting Mad FuturitiesPoetic Interruption ix: F33.3 severe and recurrentChapter 23: Madness between Mourning and Melancholia: Loss and the Case for PsychoanalysisPoetic Interruption x: Mad TerrainChapter 24: The Fatmisia and Sanism with the Digital Mental Health LandscapeChapter 25: Mad Nation? Thinking through Race, Class, and Mad Identity PoliticsPoetic Interruption xi: psychoChapter 26: Loneliness Matters for Mad Studies: Ethics of Abandonment, Loneliness, and Repair in the UniversityChapter 27: Criply, Madly, Deeply: Salty Cultures of the Left BehindList of ContributorsIndex

"This book is a much needed addition to the field of Disability Studies."—Nancy Hansen, University of Manitoba"This reader fills a clear gap in Canadian scholarship. It will, in my view, put Mad Studies 'on the map' and open this important area of study to a much larger audience. It will be particularly useful for senior undergraduate and graduate students but also brings together a disparate body of literature that will be useful to specialists in the field and to those who teach Disabilities, Mad Studies, and Social History."—Thomas E. Brown, Mount Royal University"This book carves out the terrain of a vital and robust new field of study and makes clear its many points of connection to lived experiences of madness, activist movements, and related scholarly disciplines. The writing in Mad Matters comes from diverse personal and scholarly perspectives, and covers an impressive range of relevant topics, yet it all consistently advances the volume's goal of explaining and demonstrating the scope and radical significance of Mad Studies. In short, the anthology is delightfully readable and theoretically rich."—Joanne Woiak, University of Washington