Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)

'The best introduction to mad politics I have ever read' – Rob Chapman, author of Empire of Normality
‘A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health’ - Dazed
‘Teaches us how to transform the ways we understand madness, illness, and disability to build a better world’ – Beatrice Adler-Bolton, co-author of  Health Communism

Mental 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? These 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.

Exploring 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;  Mad World  is a radical and hopeful antidote to pathologisation, gatekeeping and the policing of imagination.

Micha Frazer-Carroll is a columnist at the Independent. Micha has written for the Guardian, Vogue, HuffPost, Huck, gal-dem and Dazed.  She was nominated for the Comment Awards’ Fresh New Voice of the Year Award, and the Observer/Anthony Burgess Award for Arts Criticism.