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- by Cetin Alkan
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- Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Anti-Psychiatry
- by Deirdre Barrett
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- History, Neuroscience, Media Sociology, Psychology

This article employs a mad transdisciplinary approach to autoethnography to detail vulvodynia — or chronic vulvar pain — within the system of (dis)ability. Through autoethnography, the self operates as a mobile orientation from which to identify and disrupt the colonial rationalities that differentially construct and narrate vulvodynia across sites of madness and disability. Through historical, discursive, and autoethnographic analysis, I locate vulvodynia’s role in various processes of subject, race, and settler-state formation from the nineteenth century up to the neoliberal present.

- by Renee Dumaresque
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- Epistemology, Research Methodology, Disability Studies, History of Medicine

The relationship between psychology and activism has taken many forms. Throughout the history of the discipline, psychologists have used psychological research in order to under- stand and address issues of inequality and injustice, to promote social and political change, while others have taken activism and social movements as objects of inquiry. Some of the most powerful and radical activism within psychology has come from those who have challenged the power structures and practices of the discipline itself. This rich, though often omitted, history of activism in psychology has informed and inspired an ongoing tradition of critical activist work in and around psychology.

- by Wen Liu and +1
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- Critical Psychology, Anti-Psychiatry, Activism, Feminist Psychology

The pharmaceutical industry, especially the sale of psychiatric drugs, is one of the most profitable businesses in the world. Because of its large profits, these companies find themselves in a position to invest enormous amounts of resources into the sale and marketing of their products. At times, their intense marketing tactics exert an economic influence on the research and practice of psychiatry that threatens to have a deleterious effect on the credibility and validity of psychiatric interventions. The loss of credibility and validity in psychiatric science may undermine public trust in psychiatry’s ability to meet the medical and psychological needs of patients with mental disorders. By investigating the conflicts of interest in the research of psychiatric medications and exploring the recent past in which the efficacy of antidepressants has been called into question, the logic of this analysis leads us to caution psychiatric consumers about the efficacy and safety of atypical
antipsychotic medications, especially when used for psychiatric treatment of vulnerable populations such as children and the
elderly. These cautions extend also to the decision of the DSM-5 task force to consider the inclusion of pediatric bipolar disorder, attenuated psychotic symptoms syndrome (also known as psychotic risk syndrome), and temper dysregulation disorder for the forthcoming fith edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The investigation into conflicts of interest between the pharmaceutical industry and medical research in psychiatry leads us to the tentative conclusion that the DSM-5 task force should place a moratorium on consideration of any new diagnostic category that would promote the prescription of antipsychotic medications to children or other vulnerable populations, such as the elderly.

- by Brent Robbins and +1
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- Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychosis
- by Heidi Rimke
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- Critical Theory, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Psychology

Entry for the New Materialism Almanac.

- by Stanimir Panayotov
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- Schizophrenia, Continental Philosophy, Felix Guattari, Anti-Psychiatry

Introductory chapter to Mad Matters book.

Tematem niniejszej antologii nie jest obłęd rozumiany w duchu Nervala. O nim traktowała w dużej mierze książka wydana w pierwszej serii „Biblioteki Romantycznej” – Ciemne drogi szaleństwa Aliny Kowalczykowej. Autorami tekstów zamieszczonych tutaj są wyłącznie ci, którzy „posługują się tym słowem «choroba»”. Najczęściej lekarze – twórcy rozpraw naukowych, opisów przypadków, ocen sądowych. Ale nie tylko. To również urzędnicy państwowi, autorzy ustaw dotyczących funkcjonowania szpitali publicznych, a także zarządcy szpitali prywatnych. Chciałam uwzględnić w ten sposób różne sposoby funkcjonowania i wykorzystania wiedzy medycznej – pokazać, jak stawiano diagnozy, jak przebiegało przyjmowanie obłąkanych do szpitala, jak ich tam traktowano i na podstawie czego orzekano o niepoczytalności. Psychiatrię jednak chciałam potraktować jako jeden z języków służących projektowaniu i podtrzymywaniu społecznego ładu.

- by Heidi Rimke
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- Critical Theory, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Social Theory

Recensione di un incontro con Ronald D. Laing e di un libro, raro e prezioso, presentato in quell'incontro avvenuto a Roma al Centro Culturale di Mondo Operaio nel 1979. Il testo è l' "Intervista sul Folle e il Saggio" a cura di Vincenzo Caretti (Ed. Laterza).
In esso Laing mette in luce gli sfaccettati, multiformi aspetti della sua personalità umana e professionale, sempre 'in-between', tra scienza e poesia. Il mio articolo ("Laing , l'esperienza di un limite . Il folle il saggio e i paradossi dell' "antipsichiatria") fu pubblicato sulla terza pagina de "Il Manifesto" il 19 Ottobre 1979.
A quell'incontro, presieduto da Aldo Carotenuto, oltre a Laing e Caretti, intervenirono anche Antonino Lo Cascio, Giovanni Jervis, Fernanda Pivano e Vittorio Saltini.

- by Daniela Ripetti Pacchini
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- Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry, Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
- by Heidi Rimke
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- Critical Theory, Discourse Analysis, Sociology, Cultural Studies

Essay on mutual relations between mental illness, social opression, genius, art and creativity. Contains references to ideas of Hans Prinzhorn, Cesare Lombroso, Michel Foucault and Thomas Szasz, as well as works of Paul Klee, Andre... more

- by Iwo Zmyślony
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- Art History, Creativity, Modern Art, Surrealism
- by Cetin Alkan
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- Marxism, Anti-Psychiatry, Marxist Psychology, Dialectical Philosophy

Plautus’ Roman comedy Menaechmi (The Two Menaechmuses) of c. 200 BC anticipates in fictional form the famous Rosenhan experiment of 1973, a landmark critique of psychiatric diagnosis. An analysis of the scenes of feigned madness and psychiatric examination suggests that the play (and the earlier Greek play from which it was adapted) offers two related ethical reflections, one on the validity of psychiatric diagnoses, the other on the validity of the entire medical model of insanity—that is, of the popular notion and political truth that mental illness is a (bodily) disease “like any other.” This essay is offered as a contribution to the interpretation of the play as well as to the history of psychiatry.

- by Michael Fontaine
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- Psychology, Psychiatry, Classics, Greek Comedy

FERNAND DELIGNY found many ways of describing himself: primordial communist, nonviolent guerrilla, weaver of networks, cartographer of wandering lines. A visionary but marginalized gure oen associated with the alternative and anti-psychiatry movements that emerged in the decades aer World War II, Deligny (1913-1996) remains dicult to categorize-an enigmatic sage. Beginning in the 1950s, Deligny conducted a series of collectively run residential programs-he called them "attempts" (or tentatives, in French)-for children and adolescents with autism and other disabilities who would have otherwise spent their lives institutionalized in state-run psychiatric asylums. Aer settling outside of Monoblet in the shadow of the Cévennes Mountains in southern France, Deligny and his collaborators developed novel methods for living and working with young people determined to be "outside of speech" (hors de parole).

- by Leon Hilton
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- Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Felix Guattari, Anti-Psychiatry
- by Heidi Rimke
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- Sociology, Medical Sociology, Health Sciences, Psychiatry
- by Heidi Rimke
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- Critical Theory, Religion, History, Sociology
- by stephen zepke
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- Psychoanalysis, Continental Philosophy, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari
- by Vladimir Safatle
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- Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Neoliberalism, Anti-Psychiatry

Psychedelic drugs are some of the most powerful tools in the world for personal healing and psychological growth. Research at major medical centers over the past few years have shown remarkable results in the treatment of conditions such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and anxiety. Psychedelic drugs provide a path of treatment that is often more effective and rapid than other methods, and with many fewer side effects than pharmaceutical options. This paper will be focusing on hallucinogens such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), and psilocybin and entheogens such as ayahuasca and ibogaine.

- by Justin Briglio
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- Religion, Cultural History, Pharmacology, Neuroscience

R. D. Laing’s critically neglected verse volume Knots (1970) is treated as a literary text and related to games, game theory and Cold War politics. The main focus is Laing’s use and view of language. He attempts, Zen-like, to reveal its conventionality and point towards another order of being. Knots participates in several genres and Laing - someone who sought to dissolve the doctor-patient distinction - transgresses what, he implies, are merely categories existing in language’s zone of illusion. His view of language relates, I argue, to his movement away from the speaking cure and towards greater interest in the body and pre-linguistic experience. While the countercultural Laing looks forward to the complete untangling of psychic, somatic and social knots, his presentation of such knots also suggests their unavoidability. If unavoidable, this text could help readers relate differently to their own knots and perhaps tie some more interesting ones.

- by Adrian Chapman
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- Game Theory, Transactional Analysis, Genre, Cold War and Culture
- by Deirdre Barrett
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- Neuroscience, Cultural Studies, Media Sociology, Psychology
- by Tommy Davies
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- Michel Foucault, Anti-Psychiatry, Women and Madness, Sylvia Plath
- by Hannah Proctor
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- Marxism, History of Psychiatry, History Of Psychology, Anti-Psychiatry

This paper analyzes the film It’s All About Love (Thomas Vinterberg, 2003) as a work of Félix Guattari’s minor cinema. By outlining a selection of Guattari’s writings on minor cinema and anti-psychiatry, the essay offers an understanding of minor cinema that questions the de facto yoking of minor cinema to (national) identity politics. Through a necessary return to Guattari’s overshadowed solo writings, especially his chapter “Le cinéma: un art mineur” in the book La révolution moléculaire, the essay allows for a reading of It’s All About Love that explores how the film constructs a potentially mad character subjectivity through colour and sound intensities or a-signifying cinematic part-signs.

- by Adam Szymanski
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- Film Studies, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Danish Literature

Tradicionalmente, la filosofía y las ciencias sociales han aportado análisis que, en salud mental, sólo se han traducido en “alternativas terapéuticas” sin verdadero espíritu crítico. Este artículo intenta pensar críticamente la práctica de la asistencia en salud mental en la sociedad actual, situándola en la perspectiva histórica que las lecturas de Foucault y la Escuela de Frankfurt permiten. En primer lugar, se intenta clarificar que la clínica ofrece un conocimiento instrumental y nada ingenuo, con vocación siempre de dominio. En segundo lugar, se plantea que la nosografía da nombre de enfermedades a hipóstasis de relaciones sociales que quedarían sin cuestionar. Por último, se ofrece una visión del diagnóstico como señuelo de consumo en la actual sociedad, por completo psiquiatrizada.

Co-authored with Sophie Wustefeld
This article reads Maud Mannoni’s The Retarded Child and the Mother (1973) and L’éducation impossible (1973) in the context of French ‘institutional analysis’ in order to nuance criticism of Mannoni’s work, particularly the criticism that Mannoni blamed mothers for the conditions of their children. Institutional analysis emerged in France after World War II. Institutional analysts drew from psychotherapy, sociology, and education in order to question power dynamics and the consequences of bureaucracy in their areas of research. Although often overlooked, this movement influenced Mannoni just as much as commonly acknowledged influences like Jacques Lacan and the anti-psychiatry movement. Moreover, connecting the preoccupations of institutional analysis with a more Lacanian approach, the thought of the understudied yet brilliant French psychoanalyst Piera Aulagnier (1923–90) offers crucial insights into the way political and social structures shape individual psyches. Retrieving these influences, we argue that Mannoni did not blame individual mothers for their children’s pathologies. Instead, she identified the social and political dimensions of psychopathologies and suggested tackling the roots of psychic diseases in social institutions.

- by Timothy Johnson
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- Psychoanalysis, French History, Disability Studies, Critical Disability Studies

This article offers an introduction to David Cooper (1931–86), who coined the term ‘anti-psychiatry’, and, it is argued here, has not so far received the scholarly attention that he deserves. The first section presents his life in context. The second section presents his work in detail. There follows a section on the critical reception of Cooper, and, finally, a conclusion that sets out ways in which he might be interesting and useful today.

- by Adrian Chapman
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- Psychosis, Schizophrenia, R D Laing, History of Psychiatry
- by Heidi Rimke
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- Critical Theory, Sociology, Medical Sociology, Social Theory
- by Mireille Berton
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- Creative Writing, Critical Theory, History, Psychoanalysis

Contemporary psychology is in a state of confusion, claims this perennialist author and mental health clinician, because it cannot identify the 'self' or 'the unity of the personality'. This is because it "attempts to study what is beyond its epistemological and ontological scope and trespasses upon the domain of metaphysics". Drawing attention to the materialistic biases in contemporary psychology, which focuses on the empirical ‘self’ and its pathology without the normative criterion of a 'healthy personality', the author contrasts contemporary psychology with traditional pneumatology, which acknowledges the transpersonal Self as the source of normative personality.

- by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos
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- Critical Theory, Christianity, Buddhism, Comparative Religion

There is growing international resistance to the oppressiveness of psychiatry. While previous books have critiqued psychiatry, Psychiatry Disrupted goes beyond theorizing what is wrong with it to theorizing how we might stop it. With chapters by Robert Menzies and Peter Beresford, Ian Parker, AJ Withers, China Mills, Tina Minkowitz, Chris Chapman, amongst others - See more at: http://www.mqup.ca/psychiatry-disrupted-products-9780773543300.php?page_id=46&#sthash.YR95EJhU.dpuf

- by B A LeFrançois
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- Social Movements, Psychiatry, Disability Studies, Critical Disability Studies
- by Maria Alexandra Ferreira-Valente
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- Anti-Psychiatry
- by Richard Noll
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- Religion, History, History of Science and Technology, Sociology

In her new book, Psychiatry and The Business Of Madness, Bonnie Burstow raises a series of critical questions for the future of psychiatry as a “legitimate” branch of medicine and as a capitalist industry designed to make profit: How has psychiatry managed to become globalized, and in the process, so completely naturalized that we forget to question its mere existence, never mind the ways in which it operates? How are we implicated in the process of physical and chemical incarcerations planned and implemented by the business of psychiatry?

- by Sona Kazemi
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- Disability Studies, Anti-Psychiatry, Women and Madness, Women and Gender Studies

Multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) are conventionally recommended in mental health
care literature as an important way to offer holistic treatment provision to patients. This
study aims to explore multidisciplinary teamwork in contemporary mental health
settings, particularly what aids and hinders the process of multidisciplinary teamworking,
and the social work contribution in such teams. In order to attain an in-depth
exploration of these phenomena, a single case study design was employed. Within this
design, data were generated through semi-structured interviews and structured
observation of a mental health MDT in Ireland. These data were analysed using
interpretative phenomenological analysis. The research highlights how the concept of
mental illness is contested within this MDT, with the medical model dominant within
an environment of fluid working arrangements. Professional role blurring and
stereotyping were found to impact the division of labour on this team, with role
negotiation found to be an integral part of retaining a professional’s practice identity.
This research raises concerns for social work’s capacity to function within mental
health MDTs in Ireland, and highlights ways in which social work educators might
respond in order to empower Irish social workers to meet the challenges of mental
health multidisciplinary teamworking.

- by Alan Maddock
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- Organizational Behavior, Buddhism, History, Cultural History
- by Leon Hilton
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- Art History, Feminist Theory, Film Studies, R D Laing