{"title":"Authenticity and the (in)visibility of service user representation","authors":"S. Clarke, N. Jones, D. Mordecai","doi":"10.58544/imsj.v1i1.5241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58544/imsj.v1i1.5241","url":null,"abstract":"INTERVIEW","PeriodicalId":422025,"journal":{"name":"International Mad Studies Journal","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130053689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Planetary and mental resilience: healing ourselves to heal the world","authors":"Alinta Pilkington","doi":"10.58544/imsj.v1i1.5247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58544/imsj.v1i1.5247","url":null,"abstract":"Resilience is a concept relating to a system’s ability to ‘bounce back’ from disturbance and can be conceptualised as the boundaries (or thresholds) around an equilibrium state. This paper traces the connection between ecological change and mental health, arguing that both are seeing increasing dysregulation. Climate change, as is occurring under ‘business-as-usual conditions’, is likely to breach the resilience of the Earth System (ES), tipping the world into ‘Hothouse Earth’. Equally, mental health, envisaged also using a resilience (or ‘Window of Tolerance’) framework, is affected by climate change – tipping people from a steady to dysregulated state of emotionality. These states are borne from both direct climate crisis and indirect ‘eco-anxieties’ emanating from the mere fact of impending climate change. Societally, our level of current dysregulation and dissociation can be seen from the way we treat the indigenous and natural world. Coping mechanisms like addictions or denial can be easy to seek out to soothe upset feelings, but this paper argues that to truly re-regulate, true emotional expression of grief followed by mindful equipoise would be more desirable, both for healing ourselves and for healing the planet.","PeriodicalId":422025,"journal":{"name":"International Mad Studies Journal","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126415550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Now Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You\"","authors":"Jersey Cosantino","doi":"10.58544/imsj.v1i1.5240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58544/imsj.v1i1.5240","url":null,"abstract":"This poetic meditation explores the (im)possibilities - including imaginaries and dreams, longings and desires, wonders and exhilarations, fissures and fractures, heartbreaks and heartaches - of Mad trans time via the conduit of Mad trans poesis. By placing the complexities of Mad trans subjectivities, meaning making, and knowledge production in relationship to the archive and its residual traces and hauntings, Mad trans time unfolds as a deeply embodied theorizing, challenging and actively disrupting normative temporalities, blurring the artificial boundaries between past, present, and future; knowing and (un)knowing; being and becoming.","PeriodicalId":422025,"journal":{"name":"International Mad Studies Journal","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132701942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Power of Self as the Resource and the North Star","authors":"Stephanie Stewart et al","doi":"10.58544/imsj.v1i1.5251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58544/imsj.v1i1.5251","url":null,"abstract":"Lived experience leadership represents a means to effect much-needed systems transformations across the mental health sector, and yet remains largely underutilised. One barrier to the recognition and resourcing of lived experience leadership as such may be a lack of clarity regarding its nature. To redress this barrier, the current study aimed to produce an account of the defining features of lived experience leadership, as understood by those engaging in its practice. Interviews were conducted with 19 people defined by their peers as lived experience leaders, in which they were asked to discuss lived experience leadership and related concepts such as authority, power and influence. Discursive analysis of interview data produced an understanding of lived experience leadership as defined by people with lived experience’s use of a certain type of power: an experience-based and systems-informed knowledge of and fidelity to themselves as both individuals and as a collective. Results suggest that lived experience leadership is distinct from other forms of mental health leadership and offer influential figures a means to identify and thus appropriately support lived experience leadership in its own right.","PeriodicalId":422025,"journal":{"name":"International Mad Studies Journal","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124762682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}