Description
Book SynopsisAn impassioned critique of mental health movements from one of the left’s most important thinkers on health
Trade Review'A powerful and impassioned defence of psychiatry, urging the Left to confront the harsh realities of mental illness'
-- William Davies, author of 'The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being'
'One of the most prolific, versatile and scholarly of this country’s socialist writers'
-- 'The Times'
'A unique voice, politically committed but always balanced, urgent but always laced with humour'
-- 'New Statesman'
Table of ContentsIntroduction 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
