Mad Bibliographies

Activism: resistance, transgression, opposition, collective or individual

Art and Culture: creativity, art, craft, the process of creating

Biography: lives of patients, practitioners, family, policy-makers

Community Living: day to day issues, housing, work, community, programs and supports

Deinstitutionalization: institutional to community mental health, patient life to life in the community, trans-institutionalization

Diagnosis and Understanding: perceptions of mental wellbeing and illness – professional, patient, family, society

Equity: discrimination, poverty, social and economic exclusion

Gender and Sexuality: women, men, trans, queer, feminist, gender-stereotypes, sexism

Law and Policy:  legislation, legal structures, criminal justice system, state funding and state programs

Patient Lives: in asylums and hospitals, day to day, institutional work, relationships, and living conditions, abuse

Practitioners:  physicians, nurses, social workers, care givers, psychologists, therapists, psychiatrists in the act of doing their practice work

Psychiatry and psychology: ideology, culture, knowledge-base, careers, practice, status, education

Treatment: biomedical, alternative, cultural, self-healing

Institutions: asylums, hospitals, group homes, residential care facilities, treatment sites

Race: ethnicity, immigration, racism, cultural aspects