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On being unreasonable in modern society: are mental health problems special?
- Authors:
- PILGRIMA David, TOMASINI Floris
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 27(5), August 2012, pp.631-646.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Conceptually, both medicine and social science have struggled to find a consensus of understanding about madness and misery, leaving mental health and mental ill health as highly contested topics. There are many grounds for arguing that people with a range of disabilities have more in common than they have differences. However, those grounds to date have not resulted in a unified social movement. This paper examines one possible reason for that lack of unity: the particular force of being unreasonable in modern society. However, being unreasonable is not limited to those with a psychiatric diagnosis, nor does a lack or loss of reason take a simple common form within that group: it is a highly nuanced and context-specific matter. This complexity is discussed in relation to a set of inter-related questions about legalism, morality and post-enlightenment concerns with order and rationality. The paper concludes with a discussion of scenarios available to new social movements concerned with disability.