Overview
- Provides the first comprehensive application of Mad Studies to LGBTQ experiences of mental distress
- Includes analyses of inpatient chart documentation from a psychiatric hospital and interviews with those who have experienced distress
- Argues the need to interrogate the biomedical model of mental illness
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This book urges those invested in social justice for 2SLGBTQ people to interrogate the biomedical model of mental illness beyond the diagnoses that specifically target gender and sexual dissidence. In this first comprehensive application of Mad Studies to queer and trans experiences of mental distress, Pilling advances a broad critique of the biomedical model of mental illness as it pertains to 2SLGBTQ people, arguing that Mad Studies is especially amenable to making sense of queer and trans madness. Based on empirical data from two qualitative research studies, this book includes analyses of inpatient chart documentation from a psychiatric hospital and interviews with those who have experienced distress. Using an intersectional lens, Pilling critically examines what constitutes mental health treatment and the impacts of medical strategies on mad queer and trans people. Ultimately, Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice explores the emancipatory promise of queer andtrans madness, advocating for more resources to respond to crisis and distress in ways that are non-coercive, non-carceral, and honour autonomy as well as interdependence within 2SLGBTQ communities.
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Merrick Daniel Pilling is Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies in the School of Social Work at the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He is co-editor of Interrogating Psychiatric Narratives of Madness: Documented Lives.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Queer and Trans Madness
Book Subtitle: Struggles for Social Justice
Authors: Merrick Daniel Pilling
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90413-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-90412-8Published: 21 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-90415-9Published: 22 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-90413-5Published: 20 March 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 221
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Critical Psychology, Queer Studies, Gender Studies, Gender Studies, Sociology, general, Medicine/Public Health, general