GGRB28H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Angela Davis, Deinstitutionalisation, Anti-Psychiatry
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There are multiple, competing and overlapping models for talking about what is sometimes called mental illness. The term mental illness itself comes from a medical model: the idea that madness is something that is experienced individually and internally, and is fixed, natural, timeless, neutral or value-free, and rooted in our biology (neurochemistry) (rembis 141) Histories and geographies of madness : in north america and europe, the rise of psychiatric medicine in the late. Toward deinstitutionalization: by the 1960s and 1970s, critiques made by anti-psychiatry or mad movements of the overreach of the power of psychiatric institutions in people"s ordinary lives had gone mainstream in much of europe and north. America: critique of this movement (persaud) is that it remains very white, euro- Everyday geographies of madness, homelessness: knowles interviews street-involved, deinstitutionalized people living in. But, like statistics around hiv in south africa, persaud argues that it needs to be unpacked.
