Our Library
All resources collated in this library are Mad positive and affirming or support the Mad movement and align with our values.
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Academic, Activist... Always the Pragmatist
Panel from the 2023 Conference on Critical Psychiatry. Activist work is usually uncompensated. As a result, activists frequently have to accept donations of “blood money” (e.g., from coercive hospital systems and large corporations). By comparison, academics are (usually?) hired for their thoughts, values, and ideas.
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2023 World Social Work Day Panel Discussion
To celebrate and discuss this year's theme - ‘Respecting diversity through joint social action’, a discussion panel was held on March 21 to connect fellow students and alumni. It was co-hosted by The University of Melbourne Department of Social Work, the Social Work Association of Graduate Students (SWAGS) & the Social Work Alumni Association (UMSWAA).
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Launch Event - WHO Framework for Meaningful Engagement
The WHO Framework for Meaningful Engagement of People Living with NCDs and Mental Health and Neurological Conditions is designed to provide practical guidance, norms, and standards to support WHO and Member States advancing, co-creating, and enhancing policies, programmes, and services through the meaningful engagement of individuals with lived experience of these health conditions.
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Mad Feminist Activism in the Global Feminist Movement at the 2020 Seneca Falls Dialogues
This dialogue brings together mad activists and scholars to discuss old and new directions in mad feminist activism and to consider mad activism's role in a larger feminist agenda.
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Professor Peter Beresford: From Psychiatry to Disability Studies & Mad Studies
Keynote at the CCDS Disability and Disciplines Conference, 2nd July 2015. This presentation takes its starting point findings from a new Joseph Rowntree Foundation user controlled national study reporting what mental health service users/survivors feel about prevailing models of mental health.
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Living with schizophrenia: a candid conversation about breaking the mental health stigma
Listen in to this raw and emotional episode when Keris Myrick talks candidly with us about her story of being diagnosed with schizophrenia, the isolation and embarrassment she felt early on, and the terrifying encounters she’s experienced throughout the years.
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A tale of mental illness | Elyn Saks
"Is it okay if I totally trash your office?" It's a question Elyn Saks once asked her doctor, and it wasn't a joke. A legal scholar, in 2007 Saks came forward with her own story of schizophrenia, controlled by drugs and therapy but ever-present. In this powerful talk, she asks us to see people with mental illness clearly, honestly and compassionately.
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The voices in my head | Eleanor Longden
To all appearances, Eleanor Longden was just like every other student, heading to college full of promise and without a care in the world. That was until the voices in her head started talking. Initially innocuous, these internal narrators became increasingly antagonistic and dictatorial, turning her life into a living nightmare.
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Self Labelling and Identity
We call mad people lots of names. Most of them are not meant to be complimentary. But what do mad people call themselves? Do they accept labels that others stick on them? Do they apply their own labels? Why might one person choose a different label than another? This is a short documentary in which 12 Toronto activists discuss how they identify themselves.
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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Stories from MPA. A documentary about the group that transformed Canada's psychiatric landscape.
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Sanism: Dr. Jennifer Poole at TEDxRyersonU
Jennifer's talk challenges the dominant discourse of mental health, ranging from institutional settings to everyday life. In this particular society, we have all been taught to be sanists and sanism is a form of oppression that does not get that much discussion. She likes to think of behaviour and thought on a spectrum and that we are all different in some ways.
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@MadCovid’s Symposium / #MadMeetUp ‘The Second Wave’
@MadCovid held a special event on the 28.10.2020, featuring a survivor / lived experience panel to discuss the impact COVID19 has had on the mad community. As well as looking back, we also explored what mental health services and others can do to support us during the impending second 'wave' and any further lockdowns.
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Richard Ingram - Making Sense of Mad Studies, Part 1
Keynote address given by Richard Ingram at the Making Sense of Mad Studies Conference at Durham University, 30 Sept - 1 Oct, 2015
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Presenting the consumer/survivor/ex-patient movement
David Reville, an instructor with the School of Disability Studies, introduces the consumer/survivor/ex-patient movement, offering learners several ways to conceptualize the movement. The six-part metaphor is intended to frame the origins, activities, and politics of the movement.
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Thinking about white survivor research and mad studies - Alison Faulkner
Alison Faulkner is a survivor researcher and trainer in mental health with over 25 years’ experience of working in mental health research and consultancy. ISPS promotes psychological and social approaches to psychosis across the globe. Providing a place where professionals, service users and carers can share their ideas, hopes and struggles, and join together in constructive dialogue and debate.
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Dr Brenda LeFrancois - "Mad Studies: Maddening Social Work"
Dr. Brenda LeFrancois, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Connecting for Canada's 150th: Canadian Visionaries of Critical Social Work, St. Thomas University, 16-19 November 2017.
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MSc Mad Studies at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
The MSc in Mad Studies is a world first and game-changing programme. Professor Brendan McCormack, Head of the Nursing Division and Occupational and Arts Therapies at QMU and the Associate Director, Centre for Person-centred Practice Research tells us more about the course. The MSc Mad Studies is primarily a course for graduates with lived experience of mental health issues.
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Introducing Mad People's History
Watch this introduction for 'Mad People's History', an online course offered at Ryerson University. David Reville, an instructor with the School of Disability Studies, explains how the history of madness differs from the history of psychiatry, and highlights the importance of including the diverse perspectives of people diagnosed as mad, insane, or mentally ill.
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Tim Evans / Poem, Interrupted
Tim Evans performs 'Poem, Interrupted' at The 2017 Melbourne Spoken Word Prize, where he was awarded an honourable mention.
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Sanism and Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice
This educational video is on understanding Sanism/mental health discrimination, and anti-Sanist and anti-oppressive social work practice. Dr. Hasan of Centennial College interviewed educators, social workers, mental health professionals and community activists of Toronto; and they shared their definitions and experiences in relation to Sanism and anti-oppressive social work practice.
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Exclusionary Sanism: a Critical Dialogue
Co-sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work and Toronto-based Service User Educators' Community of Practice, panelists engage in discussion and dialogue concerning "exclusionary sanism" and its impact and consequences, specifically including sanism vis-a-vis individuals (labelled) with psychosis and/or 'schizophrenia.'
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The Critical Role of Social Work & Mad Studies in Mental Health Recovery
Dr. Toby Brandon, PhD, Reader, Disability and Mental Health at Northumbria University, discusses how social work and mad studies can influence mental health recovery.
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Mad Hearts 2020: John Richardson - Encounters with the mental health system and documentary practice
A one day online event organised by the MSc Creative Arts and Mental Health: John Richardson - Encounters with the mental health system and documentary practice. John is a filmmaker whose work found direction after his own life-altering encounter with mental health services.
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Mad Practice Podcast
Welcome to Mad Practice, where we're shoring up our sanity skills for these crazy times. JD and Col, two unlikely, almost sane friends keep it less than real as they grapple with staying steady in a wobbly world.
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Vesper Moore: Mad Activism & Psychiatric Abolition
Vesper Moore, is a mad liberation activist, trainer, writer, and psychiatric survivor. They have been advocating as a part of the mad movement for several years and have been the recipient of many social justice and diversity awards. This interview was hosted by Angela Peacock, MSW of the Medicating Normal Team.
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Beyond Alternatives: Disability, Madness and Prison Abolition
Join Angela Y. Davis, Beth Richie, Liat Ben-Moshe, Maya Schenwar, and Victoria Law for a timely conversation about disability, madness, prison reform and abolition. Speakers will confront the entanglement of punishment and treatment, the carceral state and social work, and caging and “rehabilitation”.
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Liberating Webinars: Abolition, Deinstitutionalization, and Decarceration in the Pandemic
Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network hosted a discussion with Dustin P. Gibson and Shain M. Neumeier about connections between disability justice and abolition. This webinar will discuss connections between disability justice, abolition, deinstitutionalization, decarceration and explores strategies that advocates and organizers are using to challenge ableism, racism, and other forms of violence arising during the pandemic.
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What prejudices does society have when it comes to race, gender, age and class?
By OpenLearn from The Open University,. What prejudices does society have when it comes to race, gender age and class?
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Ableism and Sanism: The Conversation We Haven't Had | Joel Owens | TEDxYouth@LincolnStreet
Discrimination based on gender and race are, unfortunately, a fact of life, although thanks to modern movements, they are rapidly declining. However, these aren't the only forms of discrimination in our society. In his talk, Joel explains the need for society to recognize ableism and sanism more clearly, and explains how we can work to combat them.
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MAD studies
A video about MAD studies and how the diagnosis of schizophrenia were arguably used as a means of social control throughout history.
