Mad Studies Aotearoa reading group (Kites)
2017
(July 11 – Sept 12)
version 2
Form of the group
· Meet weekly for 1.5 hours
· Tuesdays, 5:30pm – 7pm, Kites staff lounge.
· A short video may be shown
· Readings are distributed in advance
· Readings are discussed
· 10 weeks
· Final four themes are chosen by the group
· Social gathering afterwards
Readings
- Will be emailed if possible
- Also available at [website]
Session 1 (11 July). Introductions. Defining disability studies & mad studies
Bassman, Ronald (2001). “Whose Reality is it anyway? Consumers/survivors/ex-patients can speak for themselves.” In: Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Vol. 41 No.4, Fall 2001 11-35
Optional reading
Introduction. B. A. LeFrancois, R. Menzies & G. Reaume (eds) Mad Matters. A critical reader in Canadian Mad Studies. Canadian Scholars' Press Inc.
Berger, Ronald J. (2013). “Disability in society.” In: Introducing disability studies. Lynne Riener Publishers. Pagina’s 1 t/m 24.
Session 2 (18 July) Words, naming ourselves.
The Transcontinental Disability Choir (2009). “What is Ableist Language and Why Should You Care?” In: Bitch Magazine. http://bitchmagazine.org/post/the-transcontinental-disability-choir-what-is-ableist-language-and-why-should-you-care
Bonnie Burstow (2013) A Rose by Any Other Name: Naming and the Battle against Psychiatry. In B. A. LeFrancois, R. Menzies & G. Reaume (eds) Mad Matters. A critical reader in Canadian Mad Studies. Canadian Scholars' Press Inc.
Optional reading
Margaret Price (2013) Defining Mental Disability. In Lennart J. Davis (ed) Disability Studies Reader, 4th edition. Routledge;
Session 3 (25 July). Philsophy of madness
Kusters, Wouter (2016). Philosophy and madness.
Optional reading
Rashed (2016) In defense of madness
Session 4 (1 August). Phenomenology (experiences of madness)
Vries, Rob de (2013). Self-Disturbance in Schizophrenia: A Phenomenological Approach to Better Understand Our Patients
Optional reading
Kusters, Wouter (2012). Fenomenologie van de psychose. In: D. Denys en G. Meynen (Red.), Handboek psychiatrie en filosofie, De Tijdstroom
Session 5. (8 August) Neoliberalism and biospychiatry
Joanna Moncrieff, Neoliberalism and biopsychiatry: a marriage of convenience. In: Liberatory Psychiatry, editors Carl I. Cohen & Sami Timimi, Cambridge University Press 2008. Hoofstuk 12, bladzijde 235-257.
Steven Williams. Troubling definitions of mental health
http://mhnurselecturer.co.uk/?p=114
Session 6. (15 August) Hallucinations and culture
Tanya Luhrmann (2011). Hallucinations and sensory overrides. Annual Review of Anthropology Vol. 40:71-85
Optional reading
Michael Goddard. (2011). Out Of Place: Madness in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Berghahn Books (One chapter?)
Session 7 (22 August): [To be chosen by the group]
Session 8 (29 August): [To be chosen by the group]
Session 9 (5 September): [To be chosen by the group]
Session 10 (12 September): [To be chosen by the group] & Conclusion
Topics for the last four sessions will be chosen based on the interests of the group. These could include, but are not limited to:
Loneliness and connection
- Julie Boonekamp (2014). Introductie teksten leesgroep: Eenzaamheid, verbinding, vervreemding.
Gerrit Glas (2001). Naar een typologie van basisangsten, hoofdstuk V.4, p. 112 t/m 123. In: Angst - beleving, structuur, macht. Uitgeverij Boom.
Joeri Calsius, Hans A. Alma, Heleen Pott (2013). ‘Doorheen de angst. Fenomenologische analyse van vijf existentiële structuurmomenten’. In: Tijdschrift cliëntgericht psychotherapie. Nummer 3.
Recovery
Morrow, Marina. (2013).Recovery: Progressive paradigm or neoliberal smokescreen? In B. A. LeFrançois, R. Menzies, & G. Reaume (Eds.), Mad matters: A critical reader in Canadian Mad Studies (pp. 323-333). Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press.
Gender and madness
Elizabeth J. Donaldson (2011). Revisiting the corpus of the madwoman. Further Notes toward a Feminist Disability studies Theory of Mental Illness. In: Feminist Disability Studies. Kim Q. Hall (ed.). Indiana University Press
Michel Foucault
[reading to be suggested]
The c/s/x/ movement
Bradley Lewis (2013) “A Mad Fight: Psychiatry and Disabililty Activism.” In Lennart J. Davis (ed) Disability Studies Reader, 4th edition. Routledge.
Drugs
Joanna Moncrieff, David Cohen, & John Mason, The Patient's Dilemma: An analysis of users' experiences of taking neuroleptic drugs, from Madness Contested, power & practice, PCCS books 2013, edited by Steven Coles.
Spirituality
http://brainblogger.com/2012/08/07/schizophrenia-and-psychosis-brain-disease-or-existential-crisis/
Chapter from Williams, P. (2012). Rethinking madness. Towards a paradigm shift in our understanding and treatment of psychosis.San Rafael, CA, USA: Sky's Edge Publishing.
+ maybe reading from Will Hall. (2016). Outside Mental Health.
Emotions and persons
Chapter 1 Personhood and Emotion (pp 37 - 54) from the book:
Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture (2009) by Emily Martin.
Stigma
The Madwoman in the Academy, or, Revealing the Invisible Straightjacket: Theorizing and Teaching Saneism and Sane Privilege. PhebeAnn M. Wolframe. Disability Studies Quarterly Vol 33, No 1 (2013) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3425/3200
Nurodiversity
McWade, Damian Milton & Peter Beresford. Mad studies and neurodiversity: a dialogue.
Disability & Society 17 February 2015. http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cdso20
The medical model/psychiatry
Timimi, S. (2014). No more psychiatric labels: Why formal psychiatric diagnostic systems should be abolished. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology. 14, 208---215.
Postpsychiatry
Chapter from Lewis, B. (2006b). Moving beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry. The birth of Postpsychiatry. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.
Mad academics
[reading to be added]
Cultural perspectives on madness
Chapter from Natalie Tobert (2017). Cultural perspectives on mental wellbeing: Spiritual interpretations of symptoms in medical practice. London: Jessica Kingsley.
Depression, Anxiety and madness
Beazer, J. (2017). Mad Pride and Depression. How can we take pride in negative experiences? Some initial thoughts. Asylum Magazine, Summer 2017.
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