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Multiplicity and Mad Studies: An Interview with Jazmine Russell

Mad in America

Even at 17, I had enough awareness to recognize that something was seriously wrong with that experience, that there was something fundamentally flawed in the way we treat people. Russell: At this point, many people are aware that trauma is a major factor that can lead to psychosis.

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Depsychiatrization: Dispelling Harmful, Diagnostical Self-Concepts in Therapy and Community Health Work

Mad in America

Depsychiatrization describes the processes by which a diagnosed individual learns to expel psychiatrically induced self-concepts and substitute them for more empowering and nurturing understandings. Yet we too rarely discuss the harm that psychiatric treatment does to a persons self-concept and self-narrative.