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Distress or Disability?

This group has been set up to take forward discussion from the event held at Lancaster University on 15-16 November 2011.

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Latest Activity: May 19, 2017

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Trauma and the social model of disability

Started by Jill Anderson. Last reply by julie gosling Jan 26, 2013. 1 Reply

Taking the ideas forward

Started by Jill Anderson Nov 16, 2011. 0 Replies

Recovery and the social model of disability

Started by Jill Anderson Nov 16, 2011. 0 Replies

Comment Wall

Comment by Bill Penson on November 18, 2011 at 18:45

It was a great two days- made lots of great connections- personally and workwise- well  one again to the organisers!

Bill

Comment by Jill Anderson on November 29, 2011 at 17:02

It was great that you were there Bill.

Comment by Jill Anderson on January 25, 2013 at 16:36

Just realised that the final publication of the Distress or Disability symposium wasn't linked to this group.  Here it is: Distress or Disability: proceedings of a symposium held at Lancaste....

We have now heard that we have a contract with Policy Press for the planned book arising from the symposium. It should come out in 2014. Do get in touch if you'd like further details.

Comment by Jill Anderson on January 25, 2013 at 17:06

The Absence of Psychiatric C/S/X Perspectives in Academic Discourse: Consequences and Implications - Nev Jones and Robyn Brown

There is growing recognition that psychiatric consumer, survivor or ex-patient perspectives are not well-integrated into disability studies work and academic discourse more generally. While limited debate has focused on whether the preferred next step is an independent ‘mad studies’ discourse or a disability studies framework more inclusive of c/s/x voices, the broader consequences of this absence have been largely overlooked. The purpose of this review is to highlight three major consequences of the absence of c/s/x voices in US academics: The (1) relatively greater biomedicalization and (2) clinical professionalization of psychiatric disability compared with other forms of disability, and (3) barriers and obstacles to training and advancement in academia for doctoral students and faculty with psychiatric disabilities.

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Comment by julie gosling on January 26, 2013 at 22:15
There are a number of issues for me to consider:
- the Disability Rights movement in general has predominantly promoted the views of white articulate disabled men and this hierarchy is mirrored in the relative lack of worth accorded to both mental health and learning disability perspectives
- within these last two 'lesser' arenas, again it is still the white articulate voices that predominate
- academic studies and journals in general tend to exclude the ordinary and experiential narrative in preference for the abstract and technical, unless it is a 'special' or 'service-user' edition
- however the democratising force of the Internet has emancipated the perspectives, politics and passions of madness and survival and made good space for our lived experience of disability and distress - it is here that we find a balancing measure of truth, diversity and creativity to both challenge and nourish the more formal and rigorous discourses of conventional learning and academic thought
- disabled activists and authors have to think carefully about whether to collude with those existing oppressions inherent within formal academic dialogue or create perhaps more honest spaces elsewhere

I wish I had been able to attend the Lancaster Symposium as I am sure my concerns were well represented there

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