Contesting Psychiatry

Social Movements in Mental Health

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

Av Nick Crossley, UK) Crossley, Nick (University of Manchester

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Resistance and social movements in mental health have been important in shaping current practice in both mental health and psychiatry. Contesting Psychiatry, focusing largely on the UK, examines the history of resistance to psychiatry between 1950 and 2000. Building on the author’s extensive research, the book provides an empirical account and exploration of the key features including: an account of the key social movements and organizations who have contested psychiatry over the last fifty yearsthe theorization of resistance to psychiatry which might apply to other national contexts and to social movement formation and protest in other medical arenasthe exploration of theories of power in psychiatry.Original and provocative in its approach, this book offers a new sociological perspective on psychiatry.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2005-12-15
Mått156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt385 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Studies in Health and Society
Antal sidor240
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780415354172

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Contesting Psychiatry is an important book. Social movement scholars (with some, especially feminist exceptions) have not given sufficient attention to this field, its critics or to the conceptions of self and normality/pathology that are arising from it. Contesting Psychiatry is a needed beginning. Joseph E David, University of Virginia... I found myself reading a really interesting book. Once Crossley starts telling the story, his enthusiasum shows, the language becomes more lively and the analysis more engaging. Jim Read MHT Digest