| Description |
xii, 251 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Critical psychiatry : challenging the biomedical dominance of psychiatry / D. B. Double -- 2. Historical perspectives on anti-psychiatry / D. B. Double -- 3. From anti-psychiatry to critical psychiatry / John M. Heaton -- 4. Transcultural mental health care : the challenge to positivist psychiatry / David Ingleby -- 5. The limits of biomedical models of distress / Lucy Johnstone -- 6. Understanding psychiatry's resistance to change / Terryn Lynch -- 7. The politics of psychiatric drug treatment / Joanna Moncrieff -- 8. British mental health social work and the psychosocial approach in context / Shulamit Ramon -- 9. Democracy, citizenship and the radical possibilities of postpsychiatry / Pat Bracken and Philip Thomas -- 10. The biopsychological approach in psychiatry : the Meyerian legacy / D. B. Double -- 11. Critical child psychiatry / Sami Timimi -- 12. Critical psychiatry and conflict : renewing mental health practice / D. B. Double |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-247) and index |
| Subject |
Psychiatry -- Philosophy.
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Mental health policy.
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Crisis intervention (Mental health services)
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Psychiatry -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Double, D. B., 1952-
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| LC no. |
2006042587 |
| ISBN |
9780230001282 hardback |
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0230001289 hardback |
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