Centring the voices of survivors of child sexual abuse in research: an act of hermeneutic justice
Survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA) are known to hold silence and create distance between themselves and service providers for self-protection, as groomed behaviour or to protect the listener from vicarious trauma.
Susanna Alyce +2 more
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How He Got His Scars: Exploring Madness and Mental Health in Filmic Representations of the Joker
In May of 1939, DC Comics introduced their popular Batman series, but it was a year later when the iconic villain, the Joker, entered the story. What began as a lighthearted pulp comic has since evolved, with Batman’s enemies growing darker and more ...
Jeff Preston, Lindsay Rath-Paillé
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Enduring the Storm: Dealing with Mental Disabilities in Oceania
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Juliann Anesi
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Astrometry with the MCAO instrument MAD - An analysis of single-epoch data obtained in the layer-oriented mode [PDF]
Context: Current instrument developments at the largest telescopes worldwide have provisions for Multi-Conjugated Adaptive Optics (MCAO) modules. The large field of view and more uniform correction provided by these systems is not only highly beneficial ...
Arcidiacono, Carmelo +4 more
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Involuntary Care and Treatment in Psychiatric Settings – Manifestations of Power and Violence?
In this article I am trying to disengage from the common forms of discussion about violence related to mental health service users/survivors, such as, for example, biomedical ideologies and statistical assertion that imply that service users/survivors ...
Ann-Charlott Timander
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‘Mad’, Mad studies and advancing inclusive resistance [PDF]
‘Mad’ is a contentious term with which many service users/survivors feel uncomfortable. Yet it is the framework for a major new user-led challenge to bio-medical thinking about distress – Mad Studi...
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Paleomagnetism, rock magnetism and geochemical aspects of early Cretaceous basalts of the Paraná Magmatic Province, from Misiones, Argentina [PDF]
The basalts of the Posadas Formation were extruded during the huge continental volcanism that affected the Parana Basin in the Lower Cretaceous. We have carried out a paleomagnetic and rock-magnetic study on samples collected along a basalt outcrop ...
Lagorio, Silvia Leonor +2 more
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A (Head) Case for a Mad Humanities: Sula's Shadrack and Black Madness
This article calls for literary studies and the humanities to critically engage with the emerging subfield of Mad Studies. Developing alongside anti-psychiatry activism and Disability Studies, Mad Studies critiques how mentally and emotionally disabled ...
Hayley C. Stefan
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Solidarities and Tensions in Mental Health Politics: Mad Studies and Psychopolitics [PDF]
Recent years have seen a resurgence in radical mental health politics and accompanying social movements. This article identifies two tendencies. The first, the Mad Studies tendency, indicts psychiatry as a branch of medicine and asserts a politics of ...
Cresswell, Mark, Spandler, Helen
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The dominance of medicalized “psy” discourses in the West has marginalized alternative perspectives and analyses of madness, resulting in the under-inclusion (or exclusion) from mainstream discourse of the firsthand experiences and perspectives of those ...
Stephanie LeBlanc +1 more
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