Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health

Herausgeber: Cohen, Bruce M Z

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the proliferation of mental health claims, based on the premise that the business of mental health is a social, economic, political and cultural project which cannot be adequately theorised without considering wider societal issues such as power, labelling, social control and consumption. An extensive collection of original essays from around the world, it brings critical literature back to the heart of social scientific discussion on mental health and illness. Offering a survey of critical theory, it demonstrates the application of critical approaches to key topics including medicalisation, the DSM, psychiatry, critical histories of mental health and talk therapy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 178mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9781138225473
• ISBN-10: 1138225479
• Artikelnr.: 49372405

Autorenporträt

Bruce M.Z. Cohen is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is the author of Mental Health User Narratives: New Perspectives on Illness and Recovery, Being Cultural and Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables, Notes on contributors, Preface, Acknowledgements, List of
abbreviations, Introduction: the importance of critical approaches to
mental health and illness (Bruce M. Z. Cohen), Part I Theoretical
perspectives 1. Labelling theory (Stefan Sjöström) 2. The social
construction of mental illness (Kevin White) 3. 'Mental health' praxis -
not the answer: a constructive antipsychiatry position (Bonnie Burstow) 4.
Foucauldian theory (Simone Fullagar) 5. Marxist theory (Bruce M. Z. Cohen)
6. Critical cultural theory (Sami Timimi) 7. Critical realism and mental
health research (David Pilgrim) 8. A critical feminist analysis of madness:
pathologising femininity through psychiatric discourse (Jane M. Ussher) 9.
Critical race theory and mental health (Roy Moodley, Falak Mujtaba and Sela
Kleiman) 10. Trapped in change: using queer theory to examine the progress
of psy-theories and interventions with sexuality and gender (Shaindl
Diamond) 11. Reflections on critical psychiatry (Pat Bracken and Phil
Thomas) 12. Mad studies (Rachel Gorman and Brenda A. LeFrançois) Part II
Critical histories of psychiatry 13. Madness: a critical history of 'mental
health care' in the United States (Tomi Gomory and Daniel J. Dunleavy) 14.
Medieval mysticism to schizoaffective disorder: the repositioning of
subjectivity in the discourse of psychiatry (Alison Torn) 15. The myth of
the Irish insanity epidemic (Damien Brennan) 16. Autism looping (Gil Eyal)
Part III Medicalisation and pharmaceuticalisation 17. The changing drivers
of medicalisation (Meredith R. Bergey) 18. Female sexual dysfunction:
medicalising desire (Annemarie Jutel and Barbara Mintzes) 19. Biomedicine,
neoliberalism and the pharmaceuticalisation of society (Emma Tseris) Part
IV The politics of diagnosis 20. The DSM and the spectre of ignorance:
psychiatric classification as a tool of professional power (Owen Whooley)
21. The attributes of mad science (David Cohen, Tomi Gomory and Stuart A.
Kirk) 22. Racialisation of the schizophrenia diagnosis (Suman Fernando)
Part V Colonial and global psychiatry 23. The mad are like savages and the
savages are mad: psychopolitics and the coloniality of the psy (China
Mills) 24. Therapeutic imperialism in disaster- and conflict-affected
countries (Janaka Jayawickrama and Jo Rose) 25. Problematising Global
Mental Health (Clement Bayetti and Sumeet Jain) Part VI Critical approaches
to therapy 26. A sociology of and in psychotherapy: the seventh sin (Peter
Morrall) 27. Marxist theory and psychotherapy (Ian Parker) 28. A feminist
critique of trauma therapy (Emma Tseris) 29. A journey into the dangers of
orthodoxy from the former director of the Freud Archives (Jeffrey M.
Masson) Index