HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Leonard Roy Frank, Mad Pride, Neurodiversity
2 Aug 2016
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Mentally incapacitated denied right to vote until 1988 in canada. From late 1800s, idiots and lunatics prohibited from entering canada for fear of degeneracy and dependency: until 1967, canada immigration act listed people with mental illness in. Undesirable category of potential immigrants: mental disorder as basis for deportation (e. g. autism) Eugenics movement: marriage and reproductive rights limited, forced sterilization. Institutionalization may represent threat to property rights, treatment choices. Recent years have seen increased organization to challenge marginalization . Challenges biomedical model, pushes for rights of mad individuals: psychiatric systems are clinician centered, not person-centered. Push for peer-led alternative to psychiatric system: help people minimize interaction with official psychiatric system. Face particular challenges because of dominance of biomedical idea, notion that mentally ill are inherently unreasonable. Calvinist minister"s wife, institutionalized for liberal religious views. Law permitted a husband to institutionalize wife without court or psych evaluation.
