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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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The mystery of madness through art and Mad Studies [PDF]
In this Current Issues article I explore how the world of art can show a different view on ‘madness’. Mad Studies, as an emergent academic field, has the possibility to offer alternative and contrasting views on madness. I argue that the current bio-medical model where ‘madness’ is reduced to ‘mental illness’ denies us the possibility to hear different
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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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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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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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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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Mitochondria-Associated Degradation Pathway (MAD) Function beyond the Outer Membrane
Summary: The mitochondria-associated degradation pathway (MAD) mediates ubiquitination and degradation of mitochondrial outer membrane (MOM) proteins by the proteasome. We find that the MAD, but not other quality-control pathways including macroautophagy,
Pin-Chao Liao +4 more
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Psychological wellbeing has received attention from academics and policymakers worldwide. Initiatives to improve psychoeducation, campaigns to raise awareness, and charity projects have been established as part of efforts to change public attitudes and ...
Lieve Carette +2 more
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Lunar madness: An empirical study
HAT THE PHASES of the moon influence the appearance of mental illness is a belief that has survived the passage of centuries. In a review of the historical literature, Oliven” has pointed out that various sources, from the Old Testament to the 18th century medical literature, express a belief in the influence of the moon on mental illness, not only ...
C E, Climent, R, Plutchik
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