A Mad Studies/social model of mental distress lens was used to critique authentic
leadership. We deconstructed the dilemma of authenticity and leadership by exploring how …

The Belgian mental healthcare reform is located between the current mostly residential
models of delivery, and the first line care as well as 'ambulatory'mental healthcare. The …

This chapter will explore the discourses that construct optimistic concepts of growthand
recoveryfollowing trauma. The most dominant trauma discourses emphasise the negative …

There is life before psychiatric hospitalization and there is life after psychiatric
hospitalization. After being discharged from care, psychiatric survivors are thrust from a …

Of demons and deities, we ponder. Using the 1982 Declaration of Principles, this chapter
focuses on oppression and human rights violations caused by psychiatry with spirituality as …

In this commentary, I discuss the ethics of 'lived experience'in Mad activism through a
personal exploration of emotion in identity politics. From an autoethnographic standpoint, I …