Contesting Psychiatry: Social Movements in Mental HealthResistance and social movements in mental health have been important in shaping current practice in both mental health and psychiatry. Contesting Psychiatry, focusing largely on the UK, examines the history of resistance to psychiatry between 1950 and 2000. Building on the author’s extensive research, the book provides an empirical account and exploration of the key features including:
Original and provocative in its approach, this book offers a new sociological perspective on psychiatry. |
Contents
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1 Social movements SMOs and fields of contention | 11 |
2 A valueadded model of mobilisation | 27 |
3 Contextualising contention | 41 |
4 Mental hygiene and early protests | 61 |
5 Antipsychiatry and the Sixties | 88 |
6 Parents people and a radical change of MIND | 112 |
7 A union of mental patients | 128 |
8 Networks survivors and international connections | 146 |
9 Consolidation and backlash | 170 |
Notes | 186 |
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