{"product_id":"madness-violence-and-power-9781442629974","title":"Madness Violence and Power","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMadness, Violence, and Power: A Critical Collection\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword 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     ","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408356876631,"sku":"9781442629974","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442629974.jpg?v=1730502573","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/madness-violence-and-power-9781442629974","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}