Life of the mind interrupted
Subtitle: essays on mental health and disability in higher education
By: Katie Rose Guest Pryal
Publisher: Blue Crow Books, an imprint of Blue Crow Publishing, LLC.
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, NC; Columbia, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781947834057
Subjects: College teachers; Psychology; Vocational guidance; Higher Education; Social aspects; Mentally ill; Employment; Universities; School Teachers##xPsychology; Mentally Ill Persons; Vocational Guidance; Supported Employment
Description: "Academia isn't an easy place to be if your brain isn't quite right. Colleagues carelessly call each other 'schizo' and 'bipolar'. Another colleague is fired--easy enough to do these days, when most college teachers no longer have tenure--for 'instability'. In these ways and many more, psychiatrically disabled people working in higher education are reminded every day that their privilege, their very livelihoods, can be stripped away by the groundless suspicions of others. Their lives can be, in an instant, interrupted.The essays in this book cover topics such as disclosure of disabilities, accommodations and accessibility, how to be a good abled friend to a disabled person, the trigger warnings debate, and more. Written for a popular audience, for those with disabilities and for those who want to learn more about living a disabled life, Life of the Mind Interrupted aims to make higher education, and the rest of our society, more humane"--page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (unnumbered page 177-page 184).
Table of contents: title: Introduction -- Part I. Disclosure blues.; title: Disclosure blues ;; title: She's so schizophrenic! ;; title: Shattering the madness monolith ;; title: Breaking the mad genius myth ;; title: Working when your brain isn't ;; title: Rough accommodations ;; title: Revisiting disclosure -- -- Part II. Collegiality.; title: Collegiality and disability ;; title: Help! My friend is bipolar ;; title: Handling personal tragedies around you ;; title: I'm not brave ;; title: Not a compliant woman colleague ;; title: Conference challenges for people with psychiatric disabilities ;; title: Accessibility is for everyone ;; title: Believe your colleagues with disabilities -- -- Part III. Teaching.; title: How to have the accommodations talk ;; title: Trigger warnings are a disability issue ;; title: How making my teaching accessible made my teaching better ;; title: What do psychiatrically disabled faculty owe our students? ;; title: We are not prepared for students in distress ;; title: The secret life of the graduate student -- -- Part IV. Beyond the academy.; title: A mother's suicide attempt and the guilty burden of statistics ;; title: Traveling stigmata ;; title: With new life comes a fear of death ---- Notes-- Acknowledgments-- About the author.