Beresford, Peter (2016) From psycho-politics to mad studies: learning from the legacy of Peter Sedgwick. Critical and Radical Social Work, 4 (3). pp. 343-355. DOI https://doi.org/10.1332/204986016X14651166264237
Beresford, Peter (2016) From psycho-politics to mad studies: learning from the legacy of Peter Sedgwick. Critical and Radical Social Work, 4 (3). pp. 343-355. DOI https://doi.org/10.1332/204986016X14651166264237
Beresford, Peter (2016) From psycho-politics to mad studies: learning from the legacy of Peter Sedgwick. Critical and Radical Social Work, 4 (3). pp. 343-355. DOI https://doi.org/10.1332/204986016X14651166264237
Abstract
We now have a new kind of psycho-politics; a brutal and destructive alliance between neoliberalism and an expanding psychiatric empire. This article will explore how mental health service users/ survivors and other mental health campaigners can connect with the critical analysis and action embodied in the work and values of Peter Sedgwick at a time of crisis and reaction. They have seen ideas like 'user involvement' and 'recovery' co-opted and undermined, and both their experiences and aspirations individualised and devalued. Emerging interest in mad studies, it is suggested, offers a way forward that challenges both the marketisation and medicalisation of people's distress. This discussion will explore the continuities and discontinuities with Peter Sedgwick's pioneering work and highlight, as he did, the importance of making explicit the political and ideological relations of survivors' struggles within and against the psychiatric system.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Sedgwick; mad studies; psychiatry; user movements |
Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA790 Mental Health |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Health and Social Care, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 15 Jul 2016 14:20 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 21:17 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/17263 |
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