... the treatment of those imprisoned under the Irish criminal justice system; arbitrariness and exploitation were its hallmarks. Addressing the manifold injustices that occurred is still an on-going issue for groups such as Justice for Magdalenes Research (JFMR) and survivors themselves, and this chapter offers...

...This chapter outlines the Capabilities Approach, developed by Amartya Sen in the 1980s as a more empowering, less paternalistic approach to welfare economics. It argues that, applied to mental distress, the Capabilities Approach offers a conceptual framework which service users, survivors...

...This chapter considers how best to build alliances between survivors of the mental health system, disability activists, and the broader, progressive left, particularly trade unionists organising in health and social care. Current struggles against austerity indicate an urgency for constructive...

...This chapter explores how - through bringing together key thinkers and activists from the disabled people’s movement, the mental health survivor movement, disability studies and mad studies - this book set out to stimulate reflection and discussion and to inspire engagement and alliances...

... an academic background and most of them are also service users/ survivors. Their fields of expertise include LGB issues, racial tensions, and recovering from the shame and stigma of alcoholism. They stress the importance of research approaches which involve mutualities of respect and understanding within...

...A key challenge of this book project has been to weave in and bring to the fore victims/survivors’ voice in trying to respond to the necessity for greater and better collaborative knowledge production and service design in critical modern slavery and human trafficking (MSHT) studies...

... – that is, torture which is inflicted in more subtle ways through stealth that become difficult or impossible to physically evidence. As Kelly went on to highlight, this has significant implications for survivors of torture who are seeking asylum, as well as obtaining justice for their subjections, since evidence...

... of torture undoes the objective of transcending definitional boundaries of torture, since some aspects of the book continue to build around it. For some psychologists and psychotraumatologists in particular, the term can be relevant for survivors of torture, but far from relevant to treatment...

... defined as orthodox legalism in Chapter 1. Those working at grassroot or practitioner level more often combine lived experience with legal understandings, defined as legalist hybridity, or indeed a more free-flowing focus on experience as the most significant factor in approaching survivors of torturous...

...This chapter extends an earlier discussion on communities and their responsiveness to domestic violence survivors, drawing on empirical research carried out in 2005 and 2006 with survivors in the south of England. It looks at how dominant definitions of domestic violence have tended to exclude...

... of the alleged abusers were members of the clergy. These are stark facts that underpin the powerful testimony of the survivors of these abuse regimes that went on during most of the 20th century. The Ryan Report reveals that over a 35-year period child abuse was endemic in the industrial and reformatory school...

... compares the life experiences of two polio survivors – one living in a rural internally displaced person (IDP) camp without mobility devices, the other in an urban setting with mobility devices. It shows the linkage between physical mobility and social interaction, resource mobilisation, attraction...

...The Beyond Trauma research project aimed to improve mental health services for female survivors of childhood sexual abuse. It explored their experiences of services, and their views on how these might be improved. It also consulted mental health professionals and voluntary sector agencies working...

...This chapter is a transcript of an interview with Tina Minkowitz, who represented the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry in the drafting and negotiation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The chapter explains why members of the mental health user/survivor...

...This chapter focuses on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), and questions whether mental health service-users and survivors are best served by becoming subsumed within a broader disability movement. It considers some limitations of the social model...

... public policy and political attitudes towards mental health service users highlight the problems of isolation and co-option facing mental health service users and the users/survivor movement. The aim of this chapter is to explore the potential for building common understanding and points of agreement...

.... It also reflects on Kathleen Jennings' research among sex workers in Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where she observes a worrying proliferation of research with “victim-survivors” of wartime sexual violence. The chapter emphasizes the researchers' ethical obligation to interrogate...

...In this conclusion, we deepen how this volume is a multifaceted and four-dimensional exploration of the journey of the victim/survivor of modern slavery and human trafficking (MSHT). We highlight how the effort of all contributions was directed at bridging a few disconnections, in order to lay...

... of torture that underpins the central argument. It is an intervention which aims to draw debate rather than situate narrow or polarizing views, and hopefully it does so. However, while all these aspects have been important, so too is considering responses to survivors. In undertaking interviews, I asked all...

...This chapter outlines the Scottish legislative and policy response to rape, discusses some of the problems facing survivors of sexual violence in their search for justice, considers the possible impact of some of the developments in recent years, and suggests some possible future directions...