Interrogating Psychiatric Narratives of Madness

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction: Psychiatric Documentation, Power, and Violence

   • Andrea Daley, Merrick D. Pilling

   Pages 1-31

3. Forming the Chart: Texts, Actions, and Differences

   • Margaret F. Gibson

   Pages 33-56

4. Narrating Genders in Psychiatric Inpatient Chart Documentation

   • Andrea Daley

   Pages 57-86

5. “Slighted and Unheard”: The Psychiatrization of Bisexuality

   • Lori E. Ross, Lucy Costa

   Pages 87-110

6. Documenting Restraint: Minimizing Trauma

   • Juveria Zaheer

   Pages 111-135

7. Sexual Violence and Psychosis: Intersections of Rape Culture, Sanism, and Anti-Black Sanism in Psychiatric Inpatient Chart Documentation

   • Merrick D. Pilling

   Pages 137-163

8. Concluding Thoughts

   • Margaret F. Gibson, Andrea Daley, Merrick D. Pilling

   Pages 165-172

9. Back Matter

   Pages 173-194

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This book challenges the perception of the psychiatric chart as a neutral and objective text. The chapters included in this book coalesce to reveal the psychiatric chart as a text that is, in fact, “storied” by institutional ideology that reflects, reinforces, reinterprets, and, at times, resists gendered, raced, sexualized, and classed norms, values, and presuppositions. Intersectional analysis highlights the nuanced ways in which dominant ideologies are activated in chart documentation to produce qualitatively specific psychiatric narratives of distress and related responses in the psychiatric institution. The book serves as a much-needed resource for mental health professionals, education and training programs, and researchers that meaningfully takes into account the social and structural materiality of people’s lives and its impact on experiences of distress. It will also appeal to scholars investigating equity in health care across the fields of Critical Psychology, Disability Studies, Social Work, Allied Health, Mad Studies and Social Justice.

• Psychiatric discourse
• Mad Studies
• health equity
• intersectionality
• psychiatric documentation practices
• Institutional Racism in Psychiatry
• Class bias in psychiatry
• Heteropatriarchy
• critical research methodology
• gender studies
• Canadian Psychiatry

“Interrogating Narratives of Madness is fresh and disruptive, accessible and actionable. By focusing on the textual practices of mental health professionals, its contributors reveal psychiatric power as mundane, standardized and even digital/electronic. Embracing diverse social locations and identities, the book is a resource for academics and community groups alike.”

• School of Social Work, Renison University College, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

  Andrea Daley

• Women’s and Gender Studies in the School of Social Work, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada

  Merrick D. Pilling

Andrea Daley is Professor at the School of Social Work, Renison University College, at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She practices critical research methods to engage politics of knowledge building with communities towards the goal of social transformation.

 Merrick D. Pilling is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Windsor, Canada. His work employs an intersectional, anti-racist lens that emphasizes the importance of lived experience, relevance to the communities being researched, and making changes to the systems that create marginalization.