Mad Studies is an interdisciplinary field focused on looking at knowledge production and political action that critiques and transcends psych-centered ways of thinking, behaving, relating and being. Mad Studies also takes a critical look at the paradigm in psychiatry of mental illness and how this often erases the narrative of metal heath service users, consumers, survivors, and ex-patients and how psychiatric care is linked to oppression, isolation, humiliation, and denigration of specific groups.