DST 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Elizabeth Packard, Community Organizing, Mad Pride
19 Oct 2017
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Learning objectives: be able to describe and differentiate between the various phases" of the c/s/x. Movement: start to think critically about how you might position yourself in relation to mad people and to the mad movement. Values consumer and survivor knowledge as forms of politicized knowledge. Contemporary mad movement: who makes up the movement, tensions between those constitutes. Praxis: theoretically informed action; repeated process of experiential learning. Sanism involves or feeds off of this constructed difference of normality vs. abnormality, sanity vs. insanity, and rationality vs. irrationally. When we decenter psychiatry it makes room for other understandings, experiences, and perspectives to be heard: psychiatry dominates everywhere, it is the way madness gets talked about, reproduced, etc. as mental illness. It resists psychiatric ways of knowing and experiences. In some, but not all cases, [mad people"s] rejection of treatment included a celebration of deviant identity and [taking] a position of ownership and. [redefining mad people"s] identity on their own terms.
