Margaret Price's Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life employs a disability studies framework to critique how U.S. higher education systematically marginalizes individuals with mental disabilities. Price argues that academic discourse relies on "topi," or commonplaces, such as rationality, criticality, participation, and collegiality, which inherently disadvantage neuroatypical students and faculty. Through analyses of medical discourse, narratives of school shootings, independent scholarship, and counter-diagnostic autobiographies, Price advocates for a transformation of academic infrastructure using principles of universal design to create a more inclusive, "multimodal" environment that values diverse ways of thinking and being.

Mad At School By Maragaret Price

State University of New York at Binghamton

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.

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The term of psychiatric survivor comes from the c/s/x movement and is meant to position individuals as survivors of the psychiatric system and psychiatric industrial complex.

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