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11 Part One Disjunctures between disability and madness
113 Part Three Applying social models of disability
139 TEN Social models of disability and sexual distress Meg John Barker and Alex Iantaffi Introduction In this chapter we suggest that there is much to be gained from bringing social models of disability into dialogue with current understandings of sexual distress. First, sexologists and sexual health practitioners could benefit hugely from applying the shift from medical to social thinking about disability to the arenas of sexual ‘disorders’ or ‘dysfunctions’. Second, it is fruitful for those studying and working with disability to extend social models
215 FIFTEEN Disabilities, colonisation and globalisation: how the very possibility of a disability identity was compromised for the ‘insane’ in India Bhargavi V Davar On 1 October 2007, the Government of India ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). In doing so, it made a commitment to the people of India and to the international community on its obligation to respect, protect and fulfil the equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms of all people with disabilities, on an equal basis
153 ELEVEN The social model of disability and suicide prevention Helen Spandler interviews David Webb (December 2013) HS: Can you tell us about when you first came across the social model of disability? What impact did it have on you, as a psychiatric system survivor? DW: Very briefly, it begins with what I now call my four years of madness in the late 1990s. It was not until after this time that I found out about and began to get involved in (mental health) consumer advocacy, activism and politics. I also started my PhD on suicide around this time. All
287 TWENTY Beyond the horizon: the landscape of madness, distress and disability Jill Anderson, Helen Spandler and Bob Sapey This book has explored the distinctions and boundaries between madness/distress and disability, and has highlighted some potential bridges between them. Through bringing together key scholars and activists, from the disabled people’s and survivor movements, and from disability studies and mad studies, we wanted to build on established knowledge to generate fresh learning, support the formation of alliances and even inspire action
245 SEVENTEEN Distress and disability: not you, not me, but us? Peter Beresford Introduction The relationship between distress and disability has continued to be a vexed and controversial one at all levels. This was helpfully illustrated by the Lancaster University seminar and the follow-up report, which led to this publication.1 These tensions are also embodied in their different conceptualisations, internal and external definitions, cultures and movements. For some time it has even seemed that there might be an impasse in relationships between distress
13 ONE Unreasonable adjustments? Applying disability policy to madness and distress Helen Spandler and Jill Anderson The rights of disabled people are now enshrined in law and reflected in policy at national and international levels. As a result, in many countries disabled people can access financial and social care support, through mechanisms like independent living payments. They are also entitled to reasonable adjustments or accommodations, to facilitate their access to education, employment and goods and services. Although the disabled people
57 FOUR Unsettling impairment: mental health and the social model of disability William J Penson Introduction This chapter advances an account of the social model of disability (SMD) that questions impairment and the application of the model in the areas of mental health and distress. It does so by critically examining the relationship between impairment and the social, which, in a simplistic application of the social model, is often taken as unproblematic. The concerns voiced here cannot be resolved within the chapter, nor without the involvement of a
