Contesting Psychiatry

Social Movements in Mental Health

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Medical, Patient Care, Health Care Delivery, Specialties, Psychiatry, Psychology, Mental Health
Cover of the book Contesting Psychiatry by Nick Crossley, Taylor and Francis
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Nick Crossley ISBN: 9781134258543
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: March 17, 2006
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Nick Crossley
ISBN: 9781134258543
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: March 17, 2006
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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:

Original and provocative in its approach, this book offers a new sociological perspective on psychiatry.

More books from Taylor and Francis

Cover of the book The Pan-German League and Radical Nationalist Politics in Interwar Germany, 1918-39 by Nick Crossley
Cover of the book Psychoanalysis and Cinema by Nick Crossley
Cover of the book Volume 10, Tome I: Kierkegaard's Influence on Theology by Nick Crossley
Cover of the book Great Cities of the World by Nick Crossley
Cover of the book Siblings in Adolescence by Nick Crossley
Cover of the book Gender Equality, Citizenship and Human Rights by Nick Crossley
Cover of the book Successful Private Practice In The 1990s by Nick Crossley
Cover of the book A Merseyside Town in the Industrial Revolution by Nick Crossley
Cover of the book Religion as Metaphor by Nick Crossley
Cover of the book Investigating Mathematics Teaching by Nick Crossley
Cover of the book Management Ideas by Nick Crossley
Cover of the book Muslims and Communists in Post-Transition States by Nick Crossley
Cover of the book Dostoevsky and the Affirmation of Life by Nick Crossley
Cover of the book Treitschke: His Life and Works by Nick Crossley
Cover of the book British Politics and the Environment by Nick Crossley
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy