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<h1 class="reader-title">Contesting Psychiatry: Social Movements
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240 Pages
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<p>Resistance and social movements in mental
health have been important in shaping current
practice in both mental health and psychiatry. <em>Contesting
Psychiatry</em>, 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: </p>
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<li>an account of the key social movements and
organizations who have contested psychiatry
over the last fifty years</li>
<li>the theorization of resistance to psychiatry
which might apply to other national contexts
and to social movement formation and protest
in other medical arenas</li>
<li>the exploration of theories of power in
psychiatry.</li>
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<p>Original and provocative in its approach, this
book offers a new sociological perspective on
psychiatry. </p>
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<p>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 </p>
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<h3>Biography</h3>
<p>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.</p>
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<p><strong>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.</strong><em> Joseph E David,
University of Virginia</em></p>
<p><strong>... 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.</strong> <em>Jim
Read MHT Digest</em></p>
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