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

‘A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health’ Dazed ‘Exposes the underlying truth that capitalism is fundamentally incompatible with our wellbeing, and tea…

If you like book Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto) here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Similar books (20)

Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

‘Groundbreaking … [provides] a deep history of the invention of the “normal” mind as one of the most damaging and oppressive tools of capitalism. To read it is to see the world more clearly’ Steve…
Buy this book on Amazon
Radical Intimacy

An impassioned discussion about the alternative ways to form relationships and resist capitalism.

Capitalist ideology wants us to believe that there is an optimal way to live. 'Making connections' mean…
Buy this book on Amazon
Health Communism

A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast “Death Panel”

In this fiery, theoretical tour-de-force, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant offer an overvi…
Buy this book on Amazon
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

What if everyone was family?

We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families can be places of love and care, but for many they are sites of pain: from abandonment and neglect, to ab…
Buy this book on Amazon
Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis

In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500% since 1980 and the numbers continue to grow. Yet, despite this prescri…
Buy this book on Amazon
Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities

The work of queer autistic scholar Nick Walker has played a key role in the evolving discourse on human neurodiversity.

Neuroqueer Heresies collects a decade's worth of Dr. Walker's most influential wr…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

The Divided Self is a unique study of the human situation.

Dr. Laing's first purpose is to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. In this, with case studies of schizophrenic patients…
Buy this book on Amazon
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justi…
Buy this book on Amazon
Ten Myths About Israel

The myths and reality behind the state of Israel and Israeli-Palestinian conflict—from “the most eloquent writer on Palestinian history” ( New Statesman )

In this groundbreaking book, published on the …
Buy this book on Amazon
Autism Is Not A Disease: The Politics of Neurodiversity

Buy this book on Amazon
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building powe…
Buy this book on Amazon
Why Socialism?

“Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is.” —Albert Einstein
Buy this book on Amazon
Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice

A call to action for therapists to politicize their practice through an emotional decolonial lens. An essential work that centers colonial and historical trauma in a framework for healing, Decolonizin…
Buy this book on Amazon
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.

Around the globe, people are faced with a spiralling succession of crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic and clima…
Buy this book on Amazon
Love in Exile

‘We ache for love, but love eludes us. Out of this crisis comes so much of what it means to be human’

Shon Faye grew up quietly obsessed with the feeling that love was not for her. Not just romantic lo…
Buy this book on Amazon
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

The Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the anti-racist and women's liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. …
Buy this book on Amazon
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability exper…
Buy this book on Amazon
A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective

Buy this book on Amazon
The Queer Art of Failure

The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known ac…
Buy this book on Amazon
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next

From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not…
Buy this book on Amazon