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Enduring the Storm: Dealing with Mental Disabilities in Oceania
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Juliann Anesi
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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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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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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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‘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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The morphological changes that occur in myxomatous mitral valve disease (MMVD) involve various components, ultimately leading to the impairment of mitral valve (MV) function.
Nina C. Wunderlich +3 more
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