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Contesting Psychiatry
Nick Crossley
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Description for Contesting Psychiatry
Paperback. Resistance and social movements in mental health have been important in shaping current practice in both mental health and psychiatry. Building on the author's extensive research, this book provides an account and exploration of the key features. It also addresses changes in health and medicine, providing a sociological perspective on psychiatry. Series: Critical Studies in Health and Society. Num Pages: 240 pages, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HBT; JPWF; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
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 years
- the theorization of resistance to psychiatry which might apply to other national contexts and to social movement formation and protest in other medical arenas
- the exploration of ... Read more
Original and provocative in its approach, this book offers a new sociological perspective on psychiatry.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Critical Studies in Health and Society
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415354172
SKU
V9780415354172
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About Nick Crossley
Nick Crossley is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. His previous books include: Making Sense of Social Movements, The Politics of Subjectivity, Intersubjectivity, The Social Body and Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory.
Reviews for Contesting Psychiatry
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 ... Read more