Critical psychiatry : a biography

Critical psychiatry : a biography / Ian Cummins.

A history of critical psychiatry that also acts as a call for a new approach to mental health services.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cummins, Ian, 1961- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: St Albans : Critical Publishing, 2017.
Series:Critical skills for social work.
Subjects:
Psychiatry > History.
Mental illness.
mental disorders.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Mental illness
Psychiatry
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Series page; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication page; Table of Contents; Meet the author; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Critical psychiatry Or anti-psychiatry; Psychiatry and the counterculture; 1 R D Laing: the psychiatrist of the counterculture; Glasgow; Major works; The rumpus room and the establishment of Kingsley Hall; Kingsley Hall; Laing, the family and madness; Mental illness as a journey; Mad to be normal?; 2 Michel Foucault; Madness and Civilization; Responses to Foucault; The continuing importance of Foucault; Conclusion
  • 3 Erving Goffman: madness, and the asylum as a total institutionStigma; The Insanity of Place; Asylums; Total institutions; Institutionalisation; Identity and the loss of self; Goffman's legacy; 4 Frantz Fanon: Black Minds Matter
  • race, psychiatry and revolutionary politics; Key works; Othering; Race, racism and mental health services; Conclusion; 5 Thomas Szasz: a libertarian challenge to the 'therapeutic state'; The Myth of Mental Illness; The therapeutic state, consent and coercion; Discussion; 6 Franco Basaglia: psychiatry as radical politics; Gramsci; The radical politics of 1968
  • Basaglia in GoriziaBasgalia's Law or Law 180; Critical perspectives on Basaglia's work; Basaglia and contemporary mental health services; Conclusion; 7 David Rosenhan: an experiment revisited; The Rosenhan experiment; Rosenhan's main conclusions; Critical responses to Rosenhan; Discussion; Conclusion; 8 Plath, Frame and Kesey: psychiatry and the literary imagination; The Bell Jar; The novels of Janet Frame; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Psychiatry, ECT and representation; Conclusion; Conclusion; Community care; Recovery; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

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