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Interrogating Psychiatric Narratives of Madness

Documented Lives

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Editors:
  1. Andrea Daley

    1. School of Social Work, Renison University College, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

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  2. Merrick D. Pilling

    1. Women’s and Gender Studies in the School of Social Work, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada

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  • Challenges the perception of the psychiatric chart as a neutral and objective text
  • Highlights how dominant ideologies are activated in chart documentation to reproduce structural inequities
  • Provides a meaningful criticism of clinical documentation practices

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: Psychiatric Documentation, Power, and Violence

    • Andrea Daley, Merrick D. Pilling
    Pages 1-31

  3. Forming the Chart: Texts, Actions, and Differences

    • Margaret F. Gibson
    Pages 33-56

  4. Narrating Genders in Psychiatric Inpatient Chart Documentation

    • Andrea Daley
    Pages 57-86

  5. “Slighted and Unheard”: The Psychiatrization of Bisexuality

    • Lori E. Ross, Lucy Costa
    Pages 87-110

  6. Documenting Restraint: Minimizing Trauma

    • Juveria Zaheer
    Pages 111-135

  7. Sexual Violence and Psychosis: Intersections of Rape Culture, Sanism, and Anti-Black Sanism in Psychiatric Inpatient Chart Documentation

    • Merrick D. Pilling
    Pages 137-163

  8. Concluding Thoughts

    • Margaret F. Gibson, Andrea Daley, Merrick D. Pilling
    Pages 165-172

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 173-194
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About this book

This book challenges the perception of the psychiatric chart as a neutral and objective text. The chapters included in this book coalesce to reveal the psychiatric chart as a text that is, in fact, “storied” by institutional ideology that reflects, reinforces, reinterprets, and, at times, resists gendered, raced, sexualized, and classed norms, values, and presuppositions. Intersectional analysis highlights the nuanced ways in which dominant ideologies are activated in chart documentation to produce qualitatively specific psychiatric narratives of distress and related responses in the psychiatric institution. The book serves as a much-needed resource for mental health professionals, education and training programs, and researchers that meaningfully takes into account the social and structural materiality of people’s lives and its impact on experiences of distress. It will also appeal to scholars investigating equity in health care across the fields of Critical Psychology, Disability Studies, Social Work, Allied Health, Mad Studies and Social Justice.

Reviews

“The volume should be of interest to a readership concerned with interdisciplinarity and dialogue across academic and practitioner disciplinary boundaries. For the educators of mental health professionals, the chapters will be a useful resource … .” (Isobel Moore and Philip John Archard, Journal of Social Work Practice, May 2, 2023) “Interrogating Narratives of Madness is fresh and disruptive, accessible and actionable. By focusing on the textual practices of mental health professionals, its contributors reveal psychiatric power as mundane, standardized and even digital/electronic. Embracing diverse social locations and identities, the book is a resource for academics and community groups alike.”

--Kathryn Church, Associate Professor, Disability Studies, Ryerson University, Canada. Author of Forbidden Narratives: Critical Autobiography as Social Science

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Social Work, Renison University College, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

    Andrea Daley

  • Women’s and Gender Studies in the School of Social Work, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada

    Merrick D. Pilling

About the editors

Andrea Daley is Professor at the School of Social Work, Renison University College, at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She practices critical research methods to engage politics of knowledge building with communities towards the goal of social transformation.


 Merrick D. Pilling is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Windsor, Canada. His work employs an intersectional, anti-racist lens that emphasizes the importance of lived experience, relevance to the communities being researched, and making changes to the systems that create marginalization. 


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Interrogating Psychiatric Narratives of Madness

  • Book Subtitle: Documented Lives

  • Editors: Andrea Daley, Merrick D. Pilling

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83692-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83691-7Published: 14 November 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83694-8Published: 14 November 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83692-4Published: 13 November 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 194

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Critical Psychology, Psychiatry, Gender Studies, Social Work, Disability Studies, Health Policy

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