Mad World (eBook)

A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental healthDazedExposes the underlying truth that capitalism is fundamentally incompatible with our wellbeing, and teaches us how to transform the ways we understand madness, illness, and disability to build a better worldBeatrice Adler-Bolton, co-author ofHealth CommunismMental 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 Worldis a radical and hopeful antidote to pathologisation, gatekeeping and the policing of imagination.Micha Frazer-Carrollis a columnist at theIndependent. Micha has written forVogue,HuffPost,Huck,gal-demandDazed. She was nominated for the Comment Awards Fresh New Voice of the Year Award, and the Observer/Anthony Burgess Award for Arts Criticism.