
Barriers to Recovery from 'Psychosis'
A Peer Investigation of Psychiatric Subjectivation
- 232 pages
- English
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Barriers to Recovery from 'Psychosis'
A Peer Investigation of Psychiatric Subjectivation
About this book
This book inaugurates the field of Mad Studies in the Indian subcontinent investigating the barriers to recovery from the perspective of "patients" and caregivers.
Offering a radical critique of the mental health system, it questions why the phenomenon of recovery from serious mental health issues is not more widespread. Drawing from narratives of "patients", evidence from lived experiences around the globe and literature on recovery in psychiatry, mental health legislations and policies, it establishes the hitherto silenced voice of the "patient" as having testimonial viability, via an emancipatory scholarship. It highlights the repeated marginalization of "patients" and the identity prejudice they experience in day-to-day situations as a form of epistemic violence. The book examines the barriers to recovery through an interdisciplinary investigation, scrutinizing relationships between individuals and institutions at interpersonal, intersocial and global levels.
The book will be of interest to researchers and scholars of psychiatry, psychology, anthropology, sociology, disability studies, Mad Studies, law and policy, cultural studies, mental health, medicine as well as general readers.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Theoretical and methodological scaffolding
- Part II Maps of recovery
- Appendix A: Demographic profiles of peers in this book
- Appendix B: Flowcharts
- Appendix C: From “treatment” towards disability
- Appendix D: The homeopathic mental health establishment
- References
- Index