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Mental health affects us all, and yet it remains elusive as a concept. Does getting a diagnosis help or hinder? How is mental wellbeing, which is often incredibly personal, driven by widespread societal suffering? Can it be a social construct and real at the same time? These are some of the big questions Micha Frazer-Carroll asks as she reveals mental health to be a political issue that needs deeper understanding beyond today's 'awareness raising' campaigns. Exploring the history of asylums and psychiatry; the relationship between disability and broader liberation movements; alternative models of care; the relationship between art and mental health; law and the decarceration of mental health, Mad World is a radical and hopeful antidote to pathologisation, gatekeeping and the policing of imagination.

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'An inquisitive and nuanced look at a topic that we talk so much about and yet still don't really have much of a holistic grasp on' -- 'gal dem' 'A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health' -- 'DAZED' 'Really brilliant...this is by far the best introduction to mad politics I've ever read.' -- Robert Chapman, Senior Lecturer in Education at Sheffield Hallam University

'An inquisitive and nuanced look at a topic that we talk so much about and yet still don't really have much of a holistic grasp on' -- 'gal dem' 'A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health' -- 'DAZED'

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Micha Frazer-Carroll is a columnist at the Independent. She has previously edited for gal-dem, the Guardian and Blueprint, a mental health magazine that she founded. Micha has also written for Vogue, HuffPost, Huck 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. She is invested in using journalism to challenge systems of power.

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