[D66] Contesting Psychiatry

[René Oudeweg]

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  Contesting Psychiatry: Social Movements in Mental Health

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ISBN 9780415354172
240 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
Published December 15, 2005 by Routledge


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 theories of power in psychiatry.

Original and provocative in its approach, this book offers a new 
sociological perspective on psychiatry.

1. Introduction  2. The Mental Health Field  3. Power, Strain and Social 
Movement  4. Mental Hygiene and Mental Health Politics in the 1950s  5. 
Anti-Psychiatry and Civil Rights  6. Patients and Survivors  7. Panic, 
Backlash and Counter-Backlash  8. Power and Resistance


      Biography

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.

    *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/
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