CONTESTING PSYCHIATRY by Nick Crossley ( 9780415354165 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

CONTESTING PSYCHIATRY
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN MENTAL HEALTH

By:

Nick Crossley

Format:

Hardback

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£135.00

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£121.50

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ISBN 10:

0415354161

ISBN 13:

9780415354165

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

15 December, 2005

Series:

Critical Studies in Health and Society

Pages:

240

Description:

Resistance and social movements in mental health have been important in shaping current practice in both mental health and psychiatry. Building on the author's extensive research, this book provides an account and exploration of the key features. It also addresses changes in health and medicine, providing a sociological perspective on psychiatry.

Synopsis:

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.

Illustrations:

16 black & white illustrations

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Routledge

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