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Author Cummins, Ian, 1961- author.

Title Critical psychiatry : a biography / Ian Cummins.

Publication Info. St Albans : Critical Publishing, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource (95 pages)
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computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Critical skills for social work
Critical skills for social work.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Print version record.
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
Summary A history of critical psychiatry that also acts as a call for a new approach to mental health services.
Subject Psychiatry -- History.
Mental illness.
Psychiatry -- history
Mental Disorders
Mental Health Services -- history
Maladies mentales.
mental disorders.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
Mental illness
Psychiatry
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: Cummins, Ian, 1961- Critical psychiatry. St Albans : Critical Publishing, 2017 1911106600 (DLC) 2017302869 (OCoLC)962253744
ISBN 9781911106630 (electronic bk.)
1911106635 (electronic bk.)
1911106627
9781911106623
1911106619
9781911106616
1911106600
9781911106609
9781911106616 (mobi)
9781911106623 (epub)
Standard No. UKMGB 018314942
AU@ 000068506413

 
    
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