Monopolized Madness: A Critique of Mad Studies Through a Consumerist Lens

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  • Greg Procknow York University, Critical Disability Studies

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https://doi.org/10.25071/1918-6215.39783

Abstract

This perspective piece surveys the peer-reviewed Mad Studies literature from 2013 to 2023 from the lived experience of someone who identifies as a consumer of mental health services. I postulate that researchers who self-identify as ‘consumer’ while engaging with Mad Studies may feel excluded because of its theorizing being steeped in anti-psychiatry and survivor scholarship, the depreciation of consumers’ voice, and the vast under-representation of self-identifying consumers in the peer-reviewed scholarship.

Keywords: Mad Studies, c/s/x, psychiatric survivor, consumers, anti-psychiatry

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Published

2025-12-19

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Procknow, G. (2025). Monopolized Madness: A Critique of Mad Studies Through a Consumerist Lens. Critical Disability Discourses, 10(2). https://doi.org/10.25071/1918-6215.39783

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Vol. 10 No. 2 (2025)

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Perspectives Pieces

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Copyright (c) 2025 Greg Procknow

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