Week 3

What is the primary focus of Mad Studies?

• Promoting the medical model of mental illness.

• Challenging biomedical approaches to mental distress and advocating for a framework of "madness".

• Supporting traditional psychiatric practices.

• Focusing solely on individual experiences of mental illness.

According to the sources, what is a major criticism of the term "mad" in the context of Mad Studies?

• It is too academic and not accessible to the general public.

• It is a relatively new term and lacks historical context.

• Many service users/survivors find it uncomfortable and stigmatizing due to its negative associations.

• It is not a strong enough term to challenge biomedical models of mental distress.

What is meant by the term "medicalization" in the context of mental health?

• Providing more funding for mental health services

• Treating common human conditions and distress as medical ailments with individual pathology.

• Focusing on the social causes of mental health issues.

• Integrating community support into mental health treatment.

What was a key demand of the Mad Pride hunger strike described in the sources?

• Increased funding for pharmaceutical research.

• Evidence that mental distress is caused by biologically-based brain diseases and correctable by medication.

• The complete abolishment of all psychiatric institutions.

• The establishment of more traditional mental health support services.

According to the sources, what is a major problem with the community care system that was intended to replace asylums?

• It resulted in a decrease in the use of psychiatric medications.

• For-profit, unregulated facilities emerged, lacking a community vision.

• It was too expensive for the government to sustain.

• It led to a decrease in the number of people seeking mental health services.

What does Danielle Carr argue is a potential problem with the way mental health is currently addressed?

• That it is too focused on community-based programs.

• That it does not acknowledge the existence of real mental illnesses.

• That it medicalizes distress and ignores the structural and social causes.

• That it gives too much attention to the pharmaceutical industry.

According to the sources, what was the role of Dorothea Dix in the history of mental health care in the U.S.?

• She advocated for deinstitutionalization.

• She lobbied for the creation of asylums due to the horrific conditions she witnessed in jails.

• She was a proponent of the medical model of mental illness.

• She was a critic of the Mad Pride movement.

What is the Penrose Hypothesis described in the sources?

• That community-based care is more effective than asylums.

• That antipsychotic medication is the best way to treat mental illness.

• That there is an inverse relationship between the number of individuals in asylums and prisons.

• That people with mental illnesses are primarily white and middle-aged.

According to the sources, what is a major concern about the recommendations of the New Freedom Commission?

• It did not acknowledge the need for more research into the biological causes of mental illness.

• It did not suggest any community-based programs.

• It promoted nationwide mental health screenings that were linked to a pharmaceutical alliance.

• It did not include enough people with lived experience on its board.

What is meant by the term reification in the context of mental health according to the sources?

• A focus on individual patient care.

• The process by which the effects of political arrangements start to seem like objective, inevitable facts.

• The practice of labeling certain behaviors as "mad."

• An emphasis on the social model of disability.