Lgbtqai+ Phobia in the Mental Health System by Dolly Sen Paperback Book

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Psychiatry has never loved queerness. Historically, LGBTQAI+ people have been institutionalised, lobotomised, castrated, over-medicated, aversion-therapied, pathologised and electroshocked. Even though being gay, bi and trans are no longer officially mental illnesses, queerphobia has not left psychiatry. Most people have no idea what violence the mental health system has done to and is still doing LGBTQAI+ people. In this book queer people tell their truth about a system that wants to hide it. The majority of books in mental health archives and libraries are written by professionals. The survivor or patient voice is not allowed to carry any weight. Why should the people who've never visited a land be that country's prime historians? It is like lions representing bird song in roars. This book is letting the birds sing, offering the chance for survivors to finally write themselves into existence 'These narratives, long overdue, demonstrate how sexual orientation, gender identity and personal history play a key role in our experience of mental health assessment, treatment and ongoing care. This book will provide an original and excellent resource for mental health professionals and carers.' Dr Clare Summerskill, Writer, lesbian stand-up and singer songwriter. LGBTQAI+ Phobia in the Mental Health System demonstrates how Gay, Trans and Mad oppression is deeply entangled - and suggests that so, too, is our individual and collective liberation". Hel Spandler, Professor of mental health, UCLan and Editor of Asylum: the radical health magazine

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'Queerphobia and the mental health system' is an important and powerful collection, highlighting the ways in which accepted mental health understandings and practices frequently damage and re-traumatise LGBTQIA+ people by replicating and reinforcing wider cultural norms and injustices. Editor Dolly Sen has done an excellent job of bringing together a diverse range of voices, covering various intersecting oppressions, forms of madness or distress, and modes of engagement with mental health systems across generations and locations. The accounts are often achingly sad and utterly enraging. They are also frequently beautiful, profound, and funny as hell. It is horrifying to reflect on the continued harm done by a culture - and the systems with in it - which insists on imposing limiting hierarchies and categories on diverse bodyminds, experiences, desires and practices, creating a 'them' to position and defend against, instead of engaging compassionately and curiously with fellow beings. Hopefully this vital series of books will help many to feel less alone as we see our experiences reflected, enabling us to resist the constant pressure to individualise our struggles and turn against ourselves. Much mad queer gratitude to Dolly and to all those courageous enough to include their stories in this inspiring collection. - Meg-John Barker, Author of Queer: A Graphic History"It is in the telling and in the hearing of these stories, cries from the heart for a understanding and celebration of queer beauty. I've have seen first-hand over three decades the endemic abuse and ridicule of queer people in mental health units.This is a glorious though not an easy read. They are a harrowing critique of psychiatry and of counselling / psychotherapy, of discrimination and of ignorance and a lack of understanding, with the construction of the pathological from personal narrative, and the misconstruing of identity as disorder.One can only hope the handbook might be the start of a bringing of light to this culture of abuse, and start a fundamental challenge to the notion of the saviour-healer-therapist-psychiatrist, smug and deaf in their knowing of mystic psychological arts, towards a more human and humane coming together of people for healing.For those with lived experience of the services, these accounts should bring solace in solidarity. For professionals, they should raise the urgency of addressing their systemic and internalised fear of difference and diversity because the shame is theirs."Dr David O'Flynn, Adamson Collection Trust

Details ISBN1739358929 Author Cassandra Lovelock Pages 294 Publisher Cuckoo's Nest Books Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781739358921 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-03-01 Imprint Cuckoo's Nest Books Edited by Cassandra Lovelock Audience General We've got this

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