Critical Psychiatry

D.B. DOUBLE is Consultant Psychiatrist and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust and University of East Anglia, UK. He is a founding member and website editor of the Critical Psychiatry Network (www.criticalpsychiatry.co.uk).

• Notes on Contributors Introduction: Critical Psychiatry: Reducing the Biomedical Dominance of Psychiatry; D.B.Double PART 1: ANTI-PSYCHIATRY AND CRITICAL PSYCHIATRY IN RETROSPECT Historical Perspectives on Anti-Psychiatry; D.B.Double From 'Anti-Psychiatry' to Critical Psychiatry; J.Heaton Transcultural Mental Health Care and the Challenge to Positivist Psychiatry; D.Ingleby PART 2: THE PROSPECT OF CRITICAL PSYCHIATRY The Limits of Biomedical Frameworks; L.Johnstone Understanding Psychiatry's Resistance to Change; T.Lynch The Politics of Psychiatric Drug Treatment; J.Moncrieff British Mental Health Social Work and the Psychosocial Approach in Context; S.Ramon Democracy, Citizenship and the Radial Possibilities of Postpsychiatry; P.Bracken & P.Thomas The Biopsychological Approach in Psychiatry: The Meyerian Legacy; D.B.Double Critical Child Psychiatry; S.Timimi Conclusion: Critical Psychiatry and Conflict: Renewing Mental Health Practice; D.B.Double Index

'This is a classic work that everyone working in mental health should read. Even if you don't agree with what the authors say, it will certainly encourage you to think - critically.' - Mental Health Today