Liberatory Psychiatry (eBook, PDF)

Philosophy, Politics and Mental Health
Redaktion: Cohen, Carl I.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Psychiatry can help free persons from social, physical and psychological oppression, and it can assist persons to lead free self-directed lives. And, because social realities impact on mental well-being, psychiatry has a critical role to play in social struggles that further liberation. These are the basic foundations of liberatory psychiatry. In recent years, dramatic transformations in social and political structures worldwide have increased the problems of domination, alienation, consumerism, class, gender, religion, race and ethnicity. Confronting the psychological impact of these changes, and exploring new ideas to help develop the liberatory potential of psychiatry, this book should be read by mental health practitioners from the widest range of disciplines and those interested in social theory and political science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511451157
• Artikelnr.: 38186632

Autorenporträt

Carl I. Cohen is a Professor of Psychiatry at SUNY Health Science Center in Brooklyn. He is also Director of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Alzheimer's Disease Assistance Center.
Sami Timimi is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in the National Health Service in Lincolnshire, UK and a Visiting Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Lincoln University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Carl I. Cohen and Sami B. Timimi; 1. Working towards a
liberatory psychiatry? Radicalizing the science of human psychology and
behaviour Carl I. Cohen; 2. Power, freedom and mental health: a
postpsychiatry perspective Philip Thomas and Pat Bracken; 3. Challenging
risk: a critique of defensive practice Duncan Double; 4. Democracy in
psychiatry: or why psychiatry needs a new constitution Bradley Lewis; 5.
German critical psychology as emancipatory psychology Charles W. Tolman; 6.
Psychopolitical validity in the helping professions: applications to
research, interventions, case conceptualization and therapy Isaac
Prilleltensky, Ora Prilleltensky and Courte W. Voorhees; 7. Class
exploitation and psychiatric disorders: from status syndrome to capitalist
syndrome Carles Muntaner, Haejoo Chung, Carme Borrell and Joan Benach; 8.
Ecological. Individual. Ecological? Moving public health psychiatry into a
new era Kwame McKenzie; 9. Children's mental health and the global market:
an ecological analysis Sami B. Timimi; 10. Postcolonial psychiatry: the
Empire strikes back? Or, the untapped promise of multiculturalism Begum
Maitra; 11. A new psychiatry for a new world: postcolonialism,
postmodernism, and the integration of premodern thought into psychiatry
Amjad Hindi, Ramotse Saunders and Ipsit Vahia; 12. Neoliberalism and
biopsychiatry: a marriage of convenience Joanna Moncrieff; 13.
Psychoanalysis and social change: the Latin American experience Astrid
Rusquellas; 14. A new psychiatry? Carl I. Cohen, Sami B. Timimi and Kenneth
S. Thompson.