Stories of the Silenced Manifesto and Mad Studies

Rachael McMahon
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This paper delves into a discussion about my experience of living with schizoaffective disorder and how I am shackled by biomedicine.  This paper outlines a series of concepts that, like Mad Studies, emancipates and provides a commensurable space for mental health service users to have a voice and to be heard.  The discourse which promotes this space is what I call the Silenced Manifesto.  Throughout this paper, I unpack the meaning of the Silenced Manifesto which builds upon the importance of the discipline of Mad Studies. Ultimately, this paper is about the effects of biomedicine on my mental health.  Firstly, I discuss the method used in my research, that is autoethnography. Then, I give a background of the concepts of the Silenced Manifesto and Mad Studies, the theoretical backbones of the paper.  Then, I back up my argument with a narrative of what it is like to be a cog in the wheel of biomedicine. In particular, a narrative on how I am labelled and assessed and therapeutically treated within the biomedical paradigm. And I query if biomedicine and its scientific arm of psychiatry are in fact applicable and appropriate to mental health, its diagnosis and definition and its treatment.
《沉默宣言》和《疯狂研究》的故事
本文深入探讨了我与精神分裂情感障碍的生活经历,以及我是如何被生物医学束缚的。本文概述了一系列概念,与Mad Studies一样,为心理健康服务使用者解放并提供了一个可比较的空间来表达自己的声音和被倾听。推动这个空间的话语是我所说的沉默宣言。在这篇论文中,我揭示了《沉默宣言》的意义,它建立在疯狂研究学科的重要性之上。最后,这篇论文是关于生物医学对我心理健康的影响。首先,我讨论了在我的研究中使用的方法,即自我民族志。然后,对论文的理论支柱——《沉默宣言》和《疯狂研究》的概念进行了背景介绍。然后,我用作为生物医学车轮上的一个齿轮的叙述来支持我的论点。特别是,在生物医学范式中,我是如何被标记、评估和治疗的。我质疑生物医学及其精神病学的科学分支是否真的适用于精神健康,它的诊断、定义和治疗。
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