Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. About the authors v
4. Foreword xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Disjunctures between disability and madness
7. Unreasonable adjustments? Applying disability policy to madness and distress 13
8. What we talk about when we talk about disability: making sense of debates in the European user/survivor movement 27
9. Inconvenient complications: on the heterogeneities of madness and their relationship to disability 43
10. Unsettling impairment: mental health and the social model of disability 57
11. Theorising distress and disablement
12. Towards a socially situated model of mental distress 69
13. The Capabilities Approach and the social model of mental health 83
14. Psycho-emotional disablism in the lives of people experiencing mental distress 99
15. Applying social models of disability
16. Psycho-emotional disablism, complex trauma and women’s mental distress 115
17. Linking ‘race’, mental health and a social model of disability: what are the possibilities? 127
18. Social models of disability and sexual distress 139
19. The social model of disability and suicide prevention 153
20. Universalising disability policy
21. Advancing the rights of users and survivors of psychiatry using the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 171
22. UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: out of the frying pan into the fire? Mental health service users and survivors aligning with the disability movement 183
23. The global politics of disablement: assuming impairment and erasing complexity 199
24. Disabilities, colonisation and globalisation: how the very possibility of a disability identity was compromised for the ‘insane’ in India 215
25. Meeting places
26. Neurodiversity: bridging the gap between the disabled people’s movement and the mental health system survivors’ movement? 231
27. Distress and disability: not you, not me, but us? 245
28. ‘It’s complicated’: blending disability and mad studies in the corporatising university 261
29. Solidarity across difference: organising for democratic alliances 271
30. Beyond the horizon: the landscape of madness, distress and disability 287
31. References 293
32. Index 333