Psychiatric Hegemony A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness

Psychiatric Hegemony A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness / by Bruce M. Z. Cohen.

This book offers a comprehensive Marxist critique of the business of mental health, demonstrating how the prerogatives of neoliberal capitalism for productive, self-governing citizens have allowed the discourse on mental illness to expand beyond the psychiatric institution into many previously untou...

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Main Author: Cohen, Bruce M. Z. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Clinical psychology.
Social medicine.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Political theory.
Psychiatry.
Psychology, Pathological.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Introduction: Thinking Critically about Mental Illness
  • Chapter 2 Marxist Theory and Mental Illness: A Critique of Political Economy
  • Chapter 3 Psychiatric Hegemony: Mental illness in Neoliberal Society
  • Chapter 4 Work: Enforcing Compliance
  • Chapter 5 Youth: Medicalising Deviance
  • Chapter 6 Women: Reproducing Patriarchal Relations
  • Chapter 7 Resistance: Pathologising Dissent
  • Chapter 8 Conclusion: Challenging the Psychiatric Hegemon
  • Chapter Appendix 1: Methodology for Textual Analysis of the DSMs
  • Chapter Appendix 2: Youth-Related Diagnostic Categories in the DSM, 1952–2013
  • Chapter Appendix 3: ‘Feminised’ Diagnostic Categories in the DSM, 1952–2013.

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