Abolishing the Concept of Mental Illness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Abolishing the Concept of Mental Illness write by Richard Hallam. This book was released on 2018-03-20. Abolishing the Concept of Mental Illness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Abolishing the Concept of Mental Illness: Rethinking the Nature of Our Woes, Richard Hallam takes aim at the very concept of mental illness, and explores new ways of thinking about and responding to psychological distress. Though the concept of mental illness has infiltrated everyday language, academic research, and public policy-making, there is very little evidence that woes are caused by somatic dysfunction. This timely book rebuts arguments put forward to defend the illness myth and traces historical sources of the mind/body debate. The author presents a balanced overview of the past utility and current disadvantages of employing a medical illness metaphor against the backdrop of current UK clinical practice. Insightful and easy to read, Abolishing the Concept of Mental Illness will appeal to all professionals and academics working in clinical psychology, as well as psychotherapists and other mental health practitioners.
The Myth of Mental Illness
The Myth of Mental Illness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Myth of Mental Illness write by Thomas S. Szasz. This book was released on 2011-07-12. The Myth of Mental Illness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “The landmark book that argued that psychiatry consistently expands its definition of mental illness to impose its authority over moral and cultural conflict.” — New York Times The 50th anniversary edition of the most influential critique of psychiatry every written, with a new preface on the age of Prozac and Ritalin and the rise of designer drugs, plus two bonus essays. Thomas Szasz's classic book revolutionized thinking about the nature of the psychiatric profession and the moral implications of its practices. By diagnosing unwanted behavior as mental illness, psychiatrists, Szasz argues, absolve individuals of responsibility for their actions and instead blame their alleged illness. He also critiques Freudian psychology as a pseudoscience and warns against the dangerous overreach of psychiatry into all aspects of modern life.
Decarcerating Disability
Decarcerating Disability - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Decarcerating Disability write by Liat Ben-Moshe. This book was released on 2020-05-19. Decarcerating Disability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration Prison abolition and decarceration are increasingly debated, but it is often without taking into account the largest exodus of people from carceral facilities in the twentieth century: the closure of disability institutions and psychiatric hospitals. Decarcerating Disability provides a much-needed corrective, combining a genealogy of deinstitutionalization with critiques of the current prison system. Liat Ben-Moshe provides groundbreaking case studies that show how abolition is not an unattainable goal but rather a reality, and how it plays out in different arenas of incarceration—antipsychiatry, the field of intellectual disabilities, and the fight against the prison-industrial complex. Ben-Moshe discusses a range of topics, including why deinstitutionalization is often wrongly blamed for the rise in incarceration; who resists decarceration and deinstitutionalization, and the coalitions opposing such resistance; and how understanding deinstitutionalization as a form of residential integration makes visible intersections with racial desegregation. By connecting deinstitutionalization with prison abolition, Decarcerating Disability also illuminates some of the limitations of disability rights and inclusion discourses, as well as tactics such as litigation, in securing freedom. Decarcerating Disability’s rich analysis of lived experience, history, and culture helps to chart a way out of a failing system of incarceration.
A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy
A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy write by Piers Gooding. This book was released on 2017-10-13. A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. International human rights law challenges core tenets of mental health law, policy and practice. This book explores this challenge.
Psychiatric Hegemony
Psychiatric Hegemony - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Psychiatric Hegemony write by Bruce M. Z. Cohen. This book was released on 2016-11-21. Psychiatric Hegemony available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a comprehensive Marxist critique of the business of mental health, demonstrating how the prerogatives of neoliberal capitalism for productive, self-governing citizens have allowed the discourse on mental illness to expand beyond the psychiatric institution into many previously untouched areas of public and private life including the home, school and the workplace. Through historical and contemporary analysis of psy-professional knowledge-claims and practices, Bruce Cohen shows how the extension of psychiatric authority can only be fully comprehended through the systematic theorising of power relations within capitalist society. From schizophrenia and hysteria to Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder, from spinning chairs and lobotomies to shock treatment and antidepressants, from the incarceration of working class women in the nineteenth century to the torture of prisoners of the ‘war on terror’ in the twenty-first, Psychiatric Hegemony is an uncompromising account of mental health ideology in neoliberal society.
