DST 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Takeaway, Shared Experience, Intersectionality

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Disability Studies
• Course: DST 500
• Professor: Danielle Landry

Document Summary

Sanism : a constructed difference in behavior that privileges non-mad people and spaces. When we decenter psychiatry, it makes room for other understandings of experiences. Celebration of deviant identity, rejection of treatment, taking a position of ownership of a word that has been previously used against mad people reclaiming power by adopting this terminology. Began in the 1960"s, even though people have been resisting disempowerment since forever. Incarcerated for his critiques of the nobility and later of the asylum. Forcibly committed by her husband for questioning her husband on politics, finances, raising of children used to police social and political dissent. Critiques of the asylum and the incarceration of mad people were being made before the 20th century old critiques. Groups began to form in the early 1940"s without any prior knowledge about anti-psychiatric movements. 60"s to be when the fight for patients rights truly began/ explicitly anti-psy.