Mad Studies

Mad Studies: The Basics provides an introductory account of a field that emerged from, and must remain grounded within, community knowledge, activism, and the perspectives of those who have experienced madness and mental health systems.

Merrick Daniel Pilling is Assistant Professor in the School of Disability Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University. He is the author of Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice and co-editor of Interrogating Psychiatric Narratives of Madness: Documented Lives.

0.Introduction - Mad Studies: The Basics. 1.Some Origins of Mad Studies. 2.What Can Mad Studies Help Us Understand? 3.What Can Mad Studies Help Us Do?