Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health

'A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health' Dazed Mental health is a political issue but we often discuss it as a personal one. How is the current mental health crisis connected to capitalism racism and other social issues? In a different world how might we transform the ways that we think about mental health diagnosis and treatment? These are some of the big questions Micha Frazer-Carroll asks as she reveals mental health to be an urgent political concern that needs deeper understanding beyond today's 'awareness-raising' campaigns. Exploring the history of asylums and psychiatry; the relationship between disability justice queer liberation and mental health; art and creativity; prisons and abolition; and alternative models of care; Mad World is a radical and hopeful antidote to pathologisation gatekeeping and the policing of imagination.