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Fourteen The global politics of disablement: assuming impairment and erasing complexity

Abstract

This chapter is about the discourse of mental health as ‘global’, and its situation within a wider global discourse of illness and disability. It argues that the distress caused by societal conditions and/or trauma, the impairment caused by psychiatric ‘treatment’, and impairments caused by conditions of inequality and by persistent poverty are often erased in global disability discourse. When we consider distress and impairment in contexts of poverty, it becomes important to understand the socio-political complexity within which all illness and impairments are embedded. Highlighting the social complexity of impairment and considering the entanglements of poverty and disability, this chapter argues that to increase overall wellbeing a global redistribution of power and resources may be more effective than increasing access to psychiatry and drugs.

Abstract

This chapter is about the discourse of mental health as ‘global’, and its situation within a wider global discourse of illness and disability. It argues that the distress caused by societal conditions and/or trauma, the impairment caused by psychiatric ‘treatment’, and impairments caused by conditions of inequality and by persistent poverty are often erased in global disability discourse. When we consider distress and impairment in contexts of poverty, it becomes important to understand the socio-political complexity within which all illness and impairments are embedded. Highlighting the social complexity of impairment and considering the entanglements of poverty and disability, this chapter argues that to increase overall wellbeing a global redistribution of power and resources may be more effective than increasing access to psychiatry and drugs.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  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
Madness, Distress and the Politics of Disablement
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Madness, Distress and the Politics of Disablement
https://doi.org/10.56687/9781447314592-017

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  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
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