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Title Psychiatry disrupted : theorizing resistance and crafting the (r)evolution / edited by Bonnie Burstow, Brenda A. LeFrançois, and Shaindl Diamond
Published Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 276 pages) : illustrations
Contents Impassioned praxis -- Becoming perpetrator -- The withering away of psychiatry -- Psychology politics resistance -- From subservience to resistance -- Developing partnerships to resist psychiatry within academia -- "We do not want to be split up from our family" -- Disability, divisions, definitions, and disabilism -- Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities -- Deeply engaged relationships -- Trans jeoparty/trans resistance -- Take it public -- Feminist resistance against the medicalization of humanity -- Sly normality
Summary Introducing readers to the arguments and rationale for opposing psychiatry, this book combines perspectives from anti-psychiatry and critical psychiatry activism, mad activism, antiracist, critical, and radical disability studies, as well as feminist, Marxist, and anarchist thought
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Antipsychiatry.
Psychiatry -- Social aspects
Psychiatry -- Political aspects
Psychiatry -- Moral and ethical aspects
Politics, Practical.
Social change.
Psychiatry -- trends
Psychiatry -- ethics
Politics
Social Change
politics.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General.
Social change
Politics, Practical
Antipsychiatry
Psychiatry -- Moral and ethical aspects
Psychiatry -- Political aspects
Psychiatry -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Burstow, Bonnie, 1945- editor.
LeFrançois, Brenda A., 1968- editor.
Diamond, Shaindl, 1980- editor.
ISBN 0773590315
9780773590311