Peter Sedgwick

PsychoPolitics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An impassioned critique of mental health movements from one of the left's most important thinkers on health.An impassioned critique of mental health movements from one of the left's most important thinkers on health

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press (UK)
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780745347257
• ISBN-10: 0745347258
• Artikelnr.: 67732083

Autorenporträt

Peter Sedgwick (1934-1983) was a Marxist, a trained psychologist and the translator of the revolutionary Victor Serge. His classic book PsychoPolitics is considered to be his major achievement, lauded by psychiatrists, social workers and philosophers alike.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the New Edition
About the Author
Acknowledgements
Part One: Anti-Psychiatry
1. Anti-Psychiatry, Illness and the Mentally Ill
2. Psycho-Medical Dualism: The Case of Erving Goffman
3. R.D. Laing: The Radical Trip
4. R.D. Laing: The Return to Psychiatry
5. Michel Foucault: The Anti-History of Psychiatry
6. Psychiatry and Politics in Thomas Szasz
Part Two: Psychiatry and Liberation
7. Mental Health Movements and Issues: A Survey and Prospect
References
Index