{"product_id":"mad-world-the-politics-of-mental-health","title":"Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eMental health is a political issue, but we often discuss it as a personal one. How is the current mental health crisis connected to capitalism, racism and other social issues? In a different world, how might we transform the ways that we think about mental health, diagnosis and treatment?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese are some of the big questions Micha Frazer-Carroll asks as she reveals mental health to be an urgent political concern that needs deeper understanding beyond today's 'awareness-raising' campaigns. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExploring the history of asylums and psychiatry; the relationship between disability justice, queer liberation and mental health; art and creativity; prisons and abolition; and alternative models of care; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMad World\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a radical and hopeful antidote to pathologisation, gatekeeping and the policing of imagination. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMicha Frazer-Carroll\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a columnist at the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIndependent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Micha has written for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eVogue, HuffPost, Huck, gal-dem \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e Dazed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e She was nominated for the Comment Awards’ Fresh New Voice of the Year Award, and the Observer\/Anthony Burgess Award for Arts Criticism.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42846069555248,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0602\/3898\/7312\/files\/202504011721_373.png?v=1773704185","url":"https:\/\/casa-riel.com\/en\/products\/mad-world-the-politics-of-mental-health","provider":"Casa Riel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}