DST 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psych, Biology Of Depression, Elizabeth Packard
3 Feb 2017
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Mad allies--defer to mad people--they are the experts. Csx movement mad studies, the same way gender studies emerged from feminism as social movement. Campaigned to archive mad history--e. g. art, publications. Praxis: theoretically informed action, a repeated process of experiential learning, you think about it, reflect on it. Today we attribute causes of madness to chemical imbalance. Psy*, medicalized, but when we de-center psych, make room for diff perspectives . Psychiatry: academic discipline that"s invaded everyday life, e. g. we say in denial and addiction . Need to work to push it out. Elizabeth packard (1816-97) quote: from the outside, inmates are outlaws in the sense that the law did not protect them in any of their inalienable rights . Mad movement has existed for some time--it"s been happening before 20th c. Her husband institutionalized her because she disagreed with him on how to run household, raise child (aka she had opinions) (ugh)
