Main description:

Madness, Violence, and Power: A Critical Collection disengages from the common forms of discussion about violence related to mental health service users and survivors which position those users or survivors as more likely to enact violence or become victims of violence. Instead, this book seeks to broaden understandings of violence manifest in the lives of mental health service users/survivors, 'push' current considerations to explore the impacts of systems and institutions that manage 'abnormality', and to create and foster space to explore the role of our own communities in justice and accountability dialogues.

This critical collection constitutes an integral contribution to critical scholarship on violence and mental illness by addressing a gap in the existing literature by broadening the "violence lens," and inviting an interdisciplinary conversation that is not narrowly biomedical and neuro-scientific.

Contents:

Foreword
Robert Whitaker

Introduction
Andrea Daley, Lucy Costa, and Peter Beresford

PART I: Dispatches on Violence
1. The Risk of Violence
Anonymous Female
2. A Personal Account of Mental Distress in Motherhood
Anonymous
3. Patient Engagement and the Process of Self-Empowerment in Secure and Forensic Psychiatric Settings in the UK
Sarah Markham
4. The Opposite of Violence
Carly Zwarenstein

PART II: Prevailing Problems
5. Enacting Violence and Care: Neoliberalism, Knowledge Claims and Resistance
Christopher Van Veen, Katherine Teghtsoonian and Marina Morrow
6. Slow Death through Evidence-Based Research
Jijian Voronka
7. Changing Directions or Staying the Course? Recovery, Gender, and Sexuality in Canada's Mental Health Strategy
Merrick Pilling
8. Homage to Spencer: The Politics of "Treatment" and "Choice" in Neoliberal Times
Meghann O'Leary and Liat Ben-Moshe
9. Indigenizing the Narrative: A Conversation on ODSP Assessments
Priya Raju and Nicole Penak
10. Madness, Violence and Media
Brigit McWade

PART III: Law as Violence
11. Contemporary Forms of Legislative Imprisonment and Colonial Violence in Forensic Mental Health
Ameil J. Joseph
12. The (Un)Writing of Risk on my Mad Pregnant Body: A Mad Feminist Political Economy Analysis of Social Reproduction and Epistemic Violence Under Neoliberalism
Tobin Leblanc Haley
13. Uncovering Law's Multiple Violences at the Inquest into the Death of Ashley Smith
C. Tess Sheldon, Karen R. Spector, and Mary Birdsell
14. Recounting Huronia: A Reflection on Legal Discourse and the Weight of Injustice
Jen Rinaldi and Kate Rossiter
15. Madding the Muslim Terrorist: Orientalist Psychology in Canada's 'War on Terror'
Azeezah Kanji

PART IV: Geographies of Violence
16. Coercive Practices in Mental Health Services: Stories of Recalcitrance, Resistance and Legitimation
Mick McKeown, Amy Scholes, Fiona Jones, and Will Aindow
17. Institutional Oppression and Violence as Self-Defence
Janet Lee-Evoy
18. "Gravity and Grace": Acknowledging Restraint and Seclusion as Violence
Kevin Reel
19. Mad, Bad and Stuck in the 'Hole': Carceral Segregation as Slow Violence
Jennifer M. Kilty and Sandra Lehalle
20. Madness and Gentrification on Queen West: Violence and the Transformations of Parkdale and the Queen Street Site
Ben Losman

Conclusion
Andrea Daley, Lucy Costa, and Peter Beresford

Glossary of Terms
References
Index