Routledge International Handbook of Mad Studies

Peter Beresford OBE is Visiting Professor at the University of East Anglia, UK and Co-Chair of Shaping Our Lives, the national disabled people’s and service users’ organization and network.Jasna Russo is a long-term activist in the international psychiatric survivor movement. She is Visiting Professor at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany where she lectures in Research Methods as well as in Critical Diversity and Community Studies. Together with Angela Sweeney, Jasna Russo is a co-editor of Searching for a Rose Garden. Challenging Psychiatry, Fostering Mad Studies (2016).

• IntroductionPart 1: Mad Studies and political organising of people with psychiatric experience1. The international foundations of Mad Studies: Knowledge generated in collective action2. Reflections on power, knowledge and change3. Shifting identities as reflective personal responses to political changes4. A crazy, warrior and "respondona" Peruvian: All personal transformation is social and political5. Reflections on survivor knowledge and Mad Studies6. Speaking for ourselves: An early UK survivor activist’s account7. Fostering community responsibility: Perspectives from the Pan African Network of people with psychosocial disabilities8. Using survivor knowledge to influence public policy in the United States9. The social movement of people with psychosocial disabilities in Japan: Strategies for taking the struggle to academia10. Re-writing the master narrative: A prerequisite for mad liberationPart 2: Situating Mad Studies11. A genealogy of the concept of "Mad Studies"12. How is Mad Studies different from anti-psychiatry and critical psychiatry? 13. Mad Studies and disability studies14. Weaponizing absent knowledges: Countering the violence of mental health lawPart 3: Mad Studies and knowledge equality15. The subjects of oblivion: Subalterity, sanism, and racial erasure16. Institutional ceremonies? The (im)possibilities of transformative co-production in mental health17. "Are you experienced?" The use of experiential knowledge in mental health and its contribution to Mad Studies18. De-pathologising motherhood19. The professional regulation of madness in nursing and social work20. The (global) rise of anti-stigma campaignsPart 4: Doing Mad Studies21. Why we must talk about de-medicalization22. Imagining non-carceral futures with(in) Mad Studies23. Madness in the time of war: Post-war reflections on practice and research beyond the borders of psychiatry and development24. The architecture of my madness25. Re-conceptualising suicidality: Towards collective intersubjective responses26. De-coupling and re-coupling violence and madness27. Upcycling recovery: Potential alliances of recovery, inequality and Mad Studies28. Bodies, boundaries, b/orders: A recent critical history of differentialism and structural adjustment29. Spirituality, psychiatry, and Mad Studies. Part 5: Inquiring into the future for Mad Studies30. Taking Mad Studies back out into the community31. Interrogating Mad Studies in the academy: Bridging the community/academy divide32. Madness, decolonisation and mental health activism in Africa33. Navigating voices, politics, positions amidst peers: Resonances and dissonances in India34. ‘Madness’ as a term of division, or rejection35. Afterword: The ethics of making knowledge together36. Postscript: Mad Studies in a maddening world

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