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Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health

Radicals in Conversation

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The Connection Between Madness and Mental Illness

I think the chapter on, like, I think it's disability possibility. Could you talk a little bit about how connected or not, I guess movements around neuro diversity, for instance, and madness and mental illness have been in the past? You know, do you feel like neuro divergence is a useful organizing umbrella for that should include mad or mentally ill people as well? Yeah, I think this is quite a complex question because, you know, the neuro diversity movement in many ways has kind of existed like quite parallel tomad movements. But I do think that it's really crucial that we actually link up the two and try to create a coherent politics between the two.

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