Foreword
Robert Whitaker
Introduction
Andrea Daley, Lucy Costa, and Peter Beresford
PART I: Dispatches on Violence
1. The Risk of Violence
Anonymous Female
2. A Personal Account of Mental Distress in Motherhood
Anonymous
3. Patient Engagement and the Process of Self-Empowerment in Secure and Forensic Psychiatric Settings in the UK
Sarah Markham
4. The Opposite of Violence
Carly Zwarenstein
PART II: Prevailing Problems
5. Enacting Violence and Care: Neoliberalism, Knowledge Claims and Resistance
Christopher Van Veen, Katherine Teghtsoonian and Marina Morrow
6. Slow Death through Evidence-Based Research
Jijian Voronka
7. Changing Directions or Staying the Course? Recovery, Gender, and Sexuality in Canada’s Mental Health Strategy
Merrick Pilling
8. Homage to Spencer: The Politics of “Treatment” and “Choice” in Neoliberal Times
Meghann O’Leary and Liat Ben-Moshe
9. Indigenizing the Narrative: A Conversation on ODSP Assessments
Priya Raju and Nicole Penak
10. Madness, Violence and Media
Brigit McWade
PART III: Law as Violence
11. Contemporary Forms of Legislative Imprisonment and Colonial Violence in Forensic Mental Health
Ameil J. Joseph
12. The (Un)Writing of Risk on my Mad Pregnant Body: A Mad Feminist Political Economy Analysis of Social Reproduction and Epistemic Violence Under Neoliberalism
Tobin Leblanc Haley
13. Uncovering Law’s Multiple Violences at the Inquest into the Death of Ashley Smith
C. Tess Sheldon, Karen R. Spector, and Mary Birdsell
14. Recounting Huronia: A Reflection on Legal Discourse and the Weight of Injustice
Jen Rinaldi and Kate Rossiter
15. Madding the Muslim Terrorist: Orientalist Psychology in Canada’s ‘War on Terror’
Azeezah Kanji
PART IV: Geographies of Violence
16. Coercive Practices in Mental Health Services: Stories of Recalcitrance, Resistance and Legitimation
Mick McKeown, Amy Scholes, Fiona Jones, and Will Aindow
17. Institutional Oppression and Violence as Self-Defence
Janet Lee-Evoy
18. “Gravity and Grace”: Acknowledging Restraint and Seclusion as Violence
Kevin Reel
19. Mad, Bad and Stuck in the ‘Hole’: Carceral Segregation as Slow Violence
Jennifer M. Kilty and Sandra Lehalle
20. Madness and Gentrification on Queen West: Violence and the Transformations of Parkdale and the Queen Street Site
Ben Losman
Conclusion
Andrea Daley, Lucy Costa, and Peter Beresford
Glossary of Terms
References
Index
