An impassioned critique of mental health movements from one of the left’s most important thinkers on health
Introduction - Tad Tietze
Part I: Anti-Psychiatry
1. Anti-psychiatry, Illness and the Mentally Ill
2. Psycho-Medical Dualism: The Case of Erving Goffman
3. R.D. Laing: The Radical Trip
4. R.D. Laing: The Return to Psychiatry
5. Michel Foucault: The Anti-History of Psychiatry
6. Psychiatry and Politics in Thomas Szasz
Part II: Psychiatry and Liberation
7. Mental Health Movements and Issues: A Survey and Prospect
'A powerful and impassioned defence of psychiatry, urging the Left to confront the harsh realities of mental illness' - William Davis, author ofThe Happiness Industry
A new edition of one of the most significant and credible critiques of the anti-psychiatry movement.
As relevant today as it was when first published in 1982, the book changed the conversation on mental health and illness, demanding that we assess its relationship to the wider decay of social institutions. Dissecting the work of popular anti-psychiatric thinkers, Erving Goffman, R.D. Laing, Michel Foucault and Thomas Szasz, Sedgwick exposed the conservative undercurrents and false hopes represented by the alternative psychiatry of the sixties and seventies, challenging the very real impact it had on our collective responsibility to look after the mentally ill.
With a new introduction that highlights the relevance of Sedgwicks demands for modern mental health movements, the practice of psychiatry and for left-wing activists, this new edition further cementsPsychoPolitics cult classic status.
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PsychoPolitics von Peter Sedgwick - mit der ISBN: 9780745347233
MEDICAL / General; MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare; PSYCHOLOGY / History; SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues; Crisis of NHS; Erving Goffman; Michel Foucault; R.D. Laing; Thomas Szasz; anti-psychiatry; mental health; mental health crisis; mental health workers; modern psychiatry; psychiatry; social movements; social workers; welfare state, Online-Buchhandlung
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