This book contests how both society and Mental Health Services conceptualise and respond to madness. Despite sustained criticisms from academia, survivor groups and practitioners, the bio-genetic model of madness prevails and therefore shapes our very notions of what madness is, who the mad are and how to respond. This dominant yet narrow view, at the heart of the psychiatric system, is misinformed and misleading as well as fraught with tensions between the provision of care and the function of social control. How and why does this system continue? What can be done to change it? Encompassing both academic analysis and practical application, Madness Contested brings together nurses, service-users, psychiatrists, psychologists, practitioners, and academics who promote alternative ways to understand and approach madness. Their contributions debate questions such as: What are the processes and forms of power involved in the current system? What interests are at play in maintaining dominant theories and practices? What are the alternative conceptualizations of madness? Can practice incorporate openness, modesty and a desire for equality? The perspectives are broad yet complimentary.Contributors include Peter Beresford, Mary Boyle, John Cromby, Jacqui Dillon, Dave Harper, Eleanor Longden, Midlands Psychology group, Joanna Moncrieff, David Pilgrim, Phil Thomas and Jan Wallcraft.
Editorial Steven Coles, Sarah Keenan and Bob Diamond Part One: Questioning the Domination of Madness Chapter 1: Persistence of Medicalisation: Is the presentation of alternatives part of the problem? Mary Boyle Chapter 2: Paranoia: Contested and contextualised. John Cromby and Dave Harper Chapter 3: Meaning, Madness and Marginalisation. Steven Coles Chapter 4: From Constructive Engagement to Coerced Recovery. Alastair Morgan and Anne Felton Chapter 5: Mental Disorder and the Socioethical Challenge of Reasonableness. David Pilgrim and Floris Tomsini Chapter 6: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Mental Disorder. Joan Busfield Chapter 7: Clinical Psychology in Psychiatric Services: The magician's assistant? Steven Coles, Bob Diamond and Sarah Keenan Chapter 8: Manifesto for a Social Materialist Psychology of Distress. Midlands Psychology Group Chapter 9: Soteria: Context, practice and philosophy. Philip Thomas Part Two: Exploring the Liberation of Madness Chapter 10: Recovery, Discovery and Revolution: The work of intervoice and the hearing voices movement. Eleanor Longden, Dirk Corstens and Jacqui Dillon Chapter 11: Experiential Knowledge and the Reconception of Madness. Peter Beresford Chapter 12: Service User Led Research on Psychosis: Marginalisation and the struggle for progression. Jan Wallcraft Chapter 13: The Patient's Dilemma: An analysis of user's experiences of taking neuroleptic drugs. Joanna Moncrieff, David Cohen and John Mason Chapter 14: Speaking Out Against the Apartheid Approach to our Minds. Rufus May, Rebecca Smith, Sophie Ashton, Ivan Fontaine, Chris Rushworth and Pete Bull Chapter 15: Toxic Mental Environments and other Psychology in the Real World Groups. Guy Holmes Chapter 16: Readdressing the Balance of power: Psychiatric medication in Nottingham. Nottingham Mind Medication Group Chapter 17: Ordinary and Extraordinary People: Acting to make a difference. Leicester Living with Psychiatric Medication Group Chapter 18: Peer Support. Becky Shaw Chapter 19: A Critical Journey from Involvement to Emancipation: A narrative account. Theo Stickley Chapter 20: Rebuilding the House of Mental Health services with Home Truths. Bob Diamond Chapter 21: A Beacon of Hope: Alternative approaches to crisis. Fiona Venner and Michelle Noad
