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Queer and Trans Madness

Struggles for Social Justice

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Authors:
  1. Merrick Daniel Pilling

    1. Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada

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  • 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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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice

    • Merrick Daniel Pilling
    Pages 1-27

  3. Reclaiming the Lunatic Fringe: Toward a Mad-Queer-Trans Lens

    • Merrick Daniel Pilling
    Pages 29-62

  4. Expanding the Struggle Against Queer and Trans Pathologization: Challenging Biomedicalism

    • Merrick Daniel Pilling
    Pages 63-96

  5. The Biomedical Model in Practice I: Encounters with Mental Health Care Practitioners

    • Merrick Daniel Pilling
    Pages 97-134

  6. The Biomedical Model in Practice II: Psychiatric Inpatient Chart Documentation on Trans and Non-Binary People

    • Merrick Daniel Pilling
    Pages 135-169

  7. Creating Social Change: The Emancipatory Promise of Queer and Trans Madness

    • Merrick Daniel Pilling
    Pages 171-201

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 203-221
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About this book

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. 



Authors and Affiliations

  • Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada

    Merrick Daniel Pilling

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.

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