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Liberatory Psychiatry: Philosophy, Politics and Mental Health
Carl I (Ed) Cohen
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Description for Liberatory Psychiatry: Philosophy, Politics and Mental Health
paperback. Confronts the psychological impact of social changes, and explores the liberatory potential of psychiatry. Editor(s): Cohen, Carl I.; Timimi, Sami. Num Pages: 306 pages, 5 b/w illus. 5 tables. BIC Classification: MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 173 x 16. Weight in Grams: 646.
Psychiatry can help free persons from social, physical and psychological oppression, and it can assist persons to lead free self-directed lives. And, because social realities impact on mental well-being, psychiatry has a critical role to play in social struggles that further liberation. These are the basic foundations of liberatory psychiatry. In recent years, dramatic transformations in social and political structures worldwide have increased the problems of domination, alienation, consumerism, class, gender, religion, race and ethnicity. Confronting the psychological impact of these changes, and exploring new ideas to help develop the liberatory potential of psychiatry, this book should be read by ... Read more
Psychiatry can help free persons from social, physical and psychological oppression, and it can assist persons to lead free self-directed lives. And, because social realities impact on mental well-being, psychiatry has a critical role to play in social struggles that further liberation. These are the basic foundations of liberatory psychiatry. In recent years, dramatic transformations in social and political structures worldwide have increased the problems of domination, alienation, consumerism, class, gender, religion, race and ethnicity. Confronting the psychological impact of these changes, and exploring new ideas to help develop the liberatory potential of psychiatry, this book should be read by ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
Number of Pages
306
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521689816
SKU
V9780521689816
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99-16
About Carl I (Ed) Cohen
Carl I. Cohen is a Professor of Psychiatry at SUNY Health Science Center in Brooklyn. He is also Director of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Alzheimer's Disease Assistance Center. Sami Timimi is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in the National Health Service in Lincolnshire, UK and a Visiting Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Lincoln University. ... Read more
Reviews for Liberatory Psychiatry: Philosophy, Politics and Mental Health
'… melange of ideas and sources … fresh and stimulating … The gap between patients' neurotransmitters and their human stories brings a diverse group of authors together here to show the limits of science - not to bash it - and the importance of meaningful narratives of human experience. … The important theme of this stimulating work is both obvious ... Read more