Over the last forty years, there have been numerous attempts to critique the theory and practice of mental health care. Taking its lead from anti-psychiatry, Critical Perspectives on Mental Health seeks to explore and evaluate the claims of mainstream mental health ideologies an…
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Critical perspectives on mental health
by ProQuest (Firm), Coppock, Vicki, Hopton, John
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Critical perspectives on mental health
by ProQuest (Firm), Coppock, Vicki, Hopton, John
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Type: Book
Over the last forty years, there have been numerous attempts to critique the theory and practice of mental health care. Taking its lead from anti-psychiatry, Critical Perspectives on Mental Health seeks to explore and evaluate the claims of mainstream mental health ideologies an…
Using the British mental health services as a case study, this book reviews the various social, political and intellectual developments which have shaped psychiatric practice. It assesses the impact of social and political movements of the 60s and 70s.
Using the British mental health services as a case study, this book critically reviews the various social, political and intellectual developments which have shaped psychiatric practice and the delivery of mental health services.
Searching for a Rose Garden is an incisive critique of all that is unhelpful about sanestream understandings of and responses to mental distress. Drawing on world-wide survivor activism and scholarship, it explores the toxicity of psychiatry and the co-option and corruption of s…