Constructing psychiatric certainty

Authors

  • Efrat Gold

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/t60sgw05

Author Biography

  • Efrat Gold

    Efrat Gold is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto engaging in Mad and Disability Studies. Through her writing and activism, she challenges dominant views of mental health and illness, moving toward contextualized and relational understandings of well-being. Gold critiques psychiatry, focusing on those most vulnerable and marginalized by psychiatric power, discourse, and treatments. Her work is staunchly feminist, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive. Through explorations into meaning-making and constructions of legitimacy, Gold unsettles psychiatric hegemony by “returning to the sites where certainty has been produced.”

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Taylor, S. & Gold, E. (2019). Madness and individualism: Unravelling in crazy times. In D. Honorato, M.A.G. Valerio, M. de Menezes, & A. Giannakoulopoulos (Eds.), Taboo Transgression Transcendence in Art & Science 2018 (pp. 135 – 143). Ionian University Publications.

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Published

2021-08-31

Issue

Summer 2021: Critical perspectives on mental health/mad studies

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Constructing psychiatric certainty. (2021). Canada Watch. https://doi.org/10.25071/t60sgw05