April 2012
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Mad Matters: Thinking Outside the Ward:... →
mad-matters: The following is an excerpt from my Feminist Studies capstone/thesis: In 1974 a group of mental service users came together and published a pamphlet called “The Need for a Mental Patient’s Union,” (which later became known as the Fish Pamphlet), and marked the beginning of the psychiatric…
Apr 30th
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“The Power of Disability Justice Disability justice activists are engaged in...”
– Mia Mingus, Changing the Framework: Disability Justice, How our communities can move beyond access to wholeness (via disabledbyculture)
Apr 30th
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Rethinking Madness:Towards a Paradigm Shift in our... →
madness-narrative: When we look closely at the recovery stories of many people [diagnosed with schizophrenia]…We discover that very often, recovery does not simply entail the return to the person’s pre-psychotic way of being, but that a profoundly healing transformation has taken place resulting in a much healthier state of mind than that which existed prior to the psychosis. When we...
Apr 30th
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Slightly dated but still relevant: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/health/man-uses-his-schizophrenia-to-gather-clues-for-daily-living.html?_r=1 -taybyers
Apr 30th
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Serious Mental Illness Blog: ISPS List of the Top... →
smiliu: The International Society for the Psychological Treatments of the Schizophrenias and Other Psychoses’s list of the Top 20 papers on the psychological treatments of the schizophrenias and other psychoses: Wayne S. Fenton and Thomas McGlashan: We can talk: Individual Psychotherapy for Schizophrenia . Am J Psychiatry 154:11, November 1997 Veikko Tähkä: Psychotherapy as phase-specific...
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"International Society for the Psychological... →
MEDIA RELEASE March 2011  INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY REMOVES ‘SCHIZOPHRENIA’ FROM ITS TITLE  Members of the International Society for the Psychological Treatments of the Schizophrenias and Other Psychoses (www.isps.org) have just voted, by an overwhelming majority, to change the society’s name to the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis. The new logo and...
Apr 30th
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some posts to follow about schizophrenia and...
only some are explicitly mad proud, and others are problematic but good to know about.
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racism & pathology
quick anecdote…  quick is subjective haha don’t let capitalism dictate your idea of speed… ;) I wanted to post this story (and rant apparently) because it’s an example of a racial, anti-mad micro-aggression (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microaggression), aka seemingly small daily (oppressive/repressive/supressive) actions which subtly maintain the status quo of power (and...
Apr 29th
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Apr 28th
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queerinterspace asked: LOVE your blog! i just started a blog about madness/mental disability (mad-matters), and i've been looking for other radical mental health/support communities on tumblr. thanks for this space
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“There’s this myth in society. Myth promoted by psychotherapists and...”
– Will Hall on Ethical Therapy (via madness-narrative)
Apr 27th
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Installment #4 from "Angry Grrrls: Mad...
These girls were deserted in this desert and they never get dessert after dinner but they are allotted one honey packet and day and 3 pieces of fruit.*                                                                   *“Concrete utopias are relational to historically situated struggles, a collectivity that is actualized or potential,” (Munoz  p. 3).  I’m using the...
Apr 27th
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(TW) Installment #3 from "Angry Grrrls: Mad...
The forest creatures gather underground inside the root tree cave away from The Natural Elements and look deeply into each other’s eyes.  Communicating telepathically the way animals do, they sigh and whisper and share.                                                                         She says semen is a poison to her, men pull out and spit poison on her, poison on her, poison in her, poison...
Apr 27th
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“One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others.” - bell hooks
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“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of...”
– Carl Jung (via rayalazarito)
Apr 24th
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“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable...”
– Carl Jung (via naturae-filius)
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“It’s disasterous for one reason, an overreliance on the medical model of...”
– John McCarthy (via teresabanks)
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"Community Psychiatry" →
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Secrets of the Disabled: i have this theory →
fromonesurvivortoanother: [trigger warning: sexual abuse, rape] You know how in academic (especially English) critical theory now there’s this idea of applying “lenses” or “theories” onto works? Like you’d analyze The Great Gatsby from an environmental angle, or from a Marxist theory angle, or from a gendered angle, etc., each time finding out something new and interesting. It might not be...
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freshkings: CLICK TO MAKE SOME MUSIC
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Installment #2 from "Angry Grrrls: Mad...
The girls are in the library.*  Even the voices only some hear are quiet.**  Reading and note-taking furiously in journals bent softened from their usual abode under shirts and waistbands.  Hidden text.     *This paper is meant as an extremely modest and Mad homage-prequel to Monique Wittig’s Les Guerilleres.  In her future which is already our past, the women were girls confined to a contemporary...
Apr 19th
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Installment #1 from "Angry Grrrls: Mad...
Angry Grrrls: Mad Resistance(s) to the Ψ Industrial Complex.     The here and now is a prison house.  We must strive, in the face of the here and now’s totalizing rendering of reality, to think and feel a then and there.  Some will say that all we have are the pleasures of this moment, but we must never settle for that minimal transport; we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other...
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Secrets of the Disabled: Is disability a bad... →
cripple-fabulous: No, it absolutely is not. At least, not to me. Now, some of the side effects of my disability suck, like chronic pain for instance, but the disability itself is not inherently bad. Imagine if I walked around everyday hating my life and never accepting my disability. If I…
Apr 18th
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