Part 1: Madness
1: Mental health activism and the demand for recognition
2: The problem of distress and disability
Part 2: Recognition
3: The concept of recognition and the problem of freedom
4: Identity and the psychological consequences of recognition
5: Misrecognition: Political reform or reconciliation?
Part 3: Routes to recognition
6: Mad culture
7: Mad identity I: Controversial and failed identities
8: Mad identity II: Unity and continuity of self
9: Madness and the limits of recognition
Part 4: Approaches to Mad Activism
10: Responding to the demand for recognition of Mad identity
11: Conclusion: Pathways to reconciliation
Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed is Wellcome Trust ISSF Research Fellow
at the Department of Philosophy, Birkbeck College, University of
London, and Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy,
King's College London. Before moving on to full-time research in
2007, Mohammed studied medicine at Cairo University Medical School
and trained in psychiatry in London on the Guy's, King's College,
and St. Thomas' Hospitals training scheme. He is the author of
several papers
and chapters in philosophy and psychiatry on the concept of mental
disorder, the concept of culture, the nature of the diagnostic
process, madness and disability, empathy and understanding in
mental
health, and psychiatric ethics.
Madness and the demand for recognition amplifies the value of Mad
Movement efforts to bring about societal transformation, and may
offer us some theoretical anchors, emerging from our own
descriptions of our work, to bolster our activities.
*Alise de Bie, Disability & Society*
Rashed's Madness and the Demand for Recognition is the first book
that, in terms of the theory of recognition, is devoted to the
central question of social psychiatry: how - outside of a
medical-psychiatric framework - can we deal with demands for social
and cultural recognition by people with psychiatric experience ...
The book is written clearly and precisely and, despite its academic
character, is very easy to read.
*Lukas Iwer, Sozialpsychiatrische Informationen*
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