Crip Time and the Recovery Paradigm: Clashes Between Institutional and Lived Temporality
Employing Alison Kafer’s concept of ‘crip time’ as a mode of writing, Ayeong unravels the recovery paradigm and its institutional salience.
On Mad[]Neurodiverse Literary Possibilities
Critical Neurodiversity Studies takeover: Natasha Downs calls for literary scholars within Mad Studies and Neurodiversity Studies to engage with one another, exploring the possibilities of and justifications for a ‘Mad[]Neurodiverse’ literary analysis.
Creating Mad Memorials: ‘A Place of Safety’
Lea Cooper discusses and shares images of their PhD work, in which zine making was both research method and research focus.
Maddening the ‘Normal’ Mind
Jodie Russell argues for Philosophy of Mind scholarship to move beyond the conception of the psyche as either rational/irrational. It is only through abandoning this opposition- and engaging with Mad Studies- that a more
‘Searching for a Rose Garden: Challenging Psychiatry, Fostering Mad Studies’ reviewed by Lucy Goldsmith
‘Searching for a Rose Garden: Challenging Psychiatry, Fostering Mad Studies’ edited by Jasna Russo and Angela Sweeney (PCCS books, 2016). Reviewed by Lucy Goldsmith, researcher at St George’s, University of London. “I never promised you