Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Dispatches on Violence
7. Introduction 21
8. 1. The Risk of Violence 23
9. 2. A Personal Account of Mental Distress in Motherhood 34
10. 3. Patient Engagement and the Process of Self-Empowerment in Secure and Forensic Psychiatric Settings in the United Kingdom 39
11. 4. The Opposite of Violence 47
12. Part II: Prevailing Problems
13. Introduction 59
14. 5. Enacting Violence and Care: Neo-liberalism, Knowledge Claims, and Resistance 63
15. 6. Slow Death through Evidence-Based Research 80
16. 7. Changing Directions or Staying the Course? Recovery, Gender, and Sexuality in Canada’s Mental Health Strategy 97
17. 8. Homage to Spencer: The Politics of “Treatment” and “Choice” in Neo-liberal Times 115
18. 9. Indigenizing the Narrative: A Conversation on Disability Assessments 136
19. 10. Madness, Violence, and Media 150
20. Part III: Law as Violence
21. Introduction 165
22. 11. Contemporary Forms of Legislative Imprisonment and Colonial Violence in Forensic Mental Health 169
23. 12. The (Un)Writing of Risk on My Mad Pregnant Body: A Mad Feminist Political Economy Analysis of Social Reproduction and Epistemic Violence under Neo-liberalism 184
24. 13. Uncovering Law’s Multiple Violences at the Inquest into the Death of Ashley Smith 196
25. 14. Recounting Huronia: A Reflection on Legal Discourse and the Weight of Injustice 221
26. 15. Madding the Muslim Terrorist: Orientalist Psychology in Canada’s “War on Terror” 237
27. Part IV: Geographies of Violence
28. Introduction 259
29. 16. Coercive Practices in Mental Health Services: Stories of Recalcitrance, Resistance, and Legitimation 263
30. 17. Institutional Oppression and Violence as Self-Defence 286
31. 18. “Gravity and Grace”: Acknowledging Restraint and Seclusion as a Violence 295
32. 19. Mad, Bad, and Stuck in the Hole: Carceral Segregation as Slow Violence 310
33. 20. Madness and Gentrification on Queen West: Violence and the Transformations of Parkdale and the Queen Street Site 330
34. Concluding Thoughts 350
35. Glossary 355
36. Contributors 367
37. Index 377