Description: Critical Psychiatry : A Biography, Paperback by Cummins, Ian, ISBN 1911106600, ISBN-13 9781911106609, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK The author explores the works and their relevance to mental health services of psychiatrists, sociologists, novelists, and historians who were critical of psychiatry: . Laing, Michel Foucault, Erving Goffman, Frantz Fanon, Thomas Szasz, Franco Basaglia, and David Rosenhan, as well as Sylvia Plath, Janet Frame, and Ken Kesey, with a focus on their literary representations of electroconvulsive therapy. He provides background on each thinker and discussion of their major works and ideas, considering the themes of the questioning of power, particularly that of the psychiatric profession; challenges to the supposed scientific neutrality of diagnosis; race and psychiatry; the use of compulsory treatment; and the potentially dehumanizing nature of institutional care. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Critical Psychiatry : A Biography
Subject Area: Social Work
Item Height: 234 mm
Item Width: 156 mm
Author: Ian Cummins
Publication Name: Critical Psychiatry: a Biography
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Critical Publishing LTD
Subject: Coaching & Career Guidance
Publication Year: 2017
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 183 g
Number of Pages: 112 Pages
