Contents

pp iii-iv

About the authors

pp v-xii

Foreword

pp xiii-xvi

Introduction

pp 1-10

Part One - Disjunctures between disability and madness

pp 11-12

One - Unreasonable adjustments? Applying disability policy to madness and distress

pp 13-26

Two - What we talk about when we talk about disability: making sense of debates in the European user/survivor movement

pp 27-42

Three - Inconvenient complications: on the heterogeneities of madness and their relationship to disability

pp 43-56

Four - Unsettling impairment: mental health and the social model of disability

pp 57-66

Part Two - Theorising distress and disablement

pp 67-68

Five - Towards a socially situated model of mental distress

pp 69-82

Six - The Capabilities Approach and the social model of mental health

pp 83-98

Seven - Psycho-emotional disablism in the lives of people experiencing mental distress

pp 99-112

Part Three - Applying social models of disability

pp 113-114

Eight - Psycho-emotional disablism, complex trauma and women’s mental distress

pp 115-126

Nine - Linking ‘race’, mental health and a social model of disability: what are the possibilities?

pp 127-138

Ten - Social models of disability and sexual distress

pp 139-152

Eleven - The social model of disability and suicide prevention

pp 153-168

Part Four - Universalising disability policy

pp 169-170

twelve - Advancing the rights of users and survivors of psychiatry using the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

pp 171-182

Thirteen - UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: out of the frying pan into the fire? Mental health service users and survivors aligning with the disability movement

pp 183-198

Fourteen - The global politics of disablement: assuming impairment and erasing complexity

pp 199-214

Fifteen - Disabilities, colonisation and globalisation: how the very possibility of a disability identity was compromised for the ‘insane’ in India

pp 215-228

Part Five - Meeting places

pp 229-230

Sixteen - Neurodiversity: bridging the gap between the disabled people’s movement and the mental health system survivors’ movement?

pp 231-244

Seventeen - Distress and disability: not you, not me, but us?

pp 245-260

Eighteen - ‘It’s complicated’: blending disability and mad studies in the corporatising university

pp 261-270

Nineteen - Solidarity across difference: organising for democratic alliances

pp 271-286

Twenty - Beyond the horizon: the landscape of madness, distress and disability

pp 287-292