Abstract
So the book begins with a chapter title that does not make sense until we understand that people deemed mentally ill have been silenced in multiple ways. The inarticulate, the in-coherent, and the non-credible have been brought about by silencing their words, deleting their lives. This is explained and the major theoretical tools of the book are introduced. With an emphasis on the local and situational, I then look at ways in which people and groups positioned this way are speaking back in terms of activism and knowledge-making. I shall argue that the individuation of the psy disciplines (psychiatry, psychology, psychiatric nursing, etc.) is a barrier to collective knowledge and action. What people can do is shaped by situations (Haraway, 1988). Situatedness refers also to the ‘mainstreams’, so I then look at two systemic obstacles to those deemed mad finding the words and actions to speak back. The first is the academy with its empirical hierarchy of methods, wherein there is no space for the methods used by user-led research and no space for theory. Second is the political and economic strategy of austerity, and this chapter ends with an account of the effects of this on people living under the description of a psychiatric diagnosis.
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The term Critical Theory is associated with the work of the Frankfurt School (Horkheimer, Adorno, Habermas) (Geuss, 1981). This work looked at the cultural and symbolic structures of society as a whole and how it reproduced certain structures, especially those of inequality, focussing on those with power. I shall, in fact, refer to Habermas’ work. But I do not wish to cause confusion by using the same term to discuss the bodies of work associated with marginalised groups, even though this is done. I shall therefore refer to ‘critical theories’ for these domains. Please see Rose (2021) for a discussion of the relation between the Frankfurt School and the present arguments.
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Rose, D.S. (2022). What Does Madness Articulate?. In: Mad Knowledges and User-Led Research . The Politics of Mental Health and Illness. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07551-3_1
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