Author: Micha Frazer-Carroll
publisher name: Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745346717
A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualization of mental health' Dazed
Mental health is a political issue, but we often discuss it as a personal one. How is the current mental health crisis connected to capitalism, racism, and other social issues? In a different world, how might we transform the ways that we think about mental health, diagnosis, and treatment?
These are some of the big questions Micha Frazer-Carroll asks as she reveals mental health to be an urgent political concern that needs deeper understanding beyond today's 'awareness-raising' campaigns. Exploring the history of asylums and psychiatry; the relationship between disability justice, queer liberation, and mental health; art and creativity; prisons and abolition; and alternative models of care; Mad World is a radical and hopeful antidote to pathologization, gatekeeping, and the policing of imagination.
