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9780521689816

Liberatory Psychiatry: Philosophy, Politics and Mental Health

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    9780521689816

  • ISBN10:

    0521689813

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-06-08
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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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.

Table of Contents

Contributorsp. vii
Acknowledgmentsp. ix
Introductionp. 1
Working towards a liberatory psychiatry? Radicalizing the science of human psychology and behaviorp. 9
Power, freedom, and mental health: a postpsychiatry perspectivep. 35
Challenging risk: a critique of defensive practicep. 55
Democracy in psychiatry: or why psychiatry needs a new constitutionp. 73
German critical psychology as emancipatory psychologyp. 89
Psychopolitical validity in the helping professions: applications to research, interventions, case conceptualization, and therapyp. 105
Class exploitation and psychiatric disorders: from status syndrome to capitalist syndromep. 131
Ecological, individual, ecological? Moving public health psychiatry into a new erap. 147
Children's mental health and the global market: an ecological analysisp. 163
Postcolonial psychiatry: the Empire strikes back? Or, the untapped promise of multiculturalismp. 183
A new psychiatry for a new world: postcolonialism, postmodernism, and the integration of premodern thought into psychiatryp. 205
Neoliberalism and biopsychiatry: a marriage of conveniencep. 235
Psychoanalysis and social change: the Latin American experiencep. 257
A new psychiatry?p. 275
Indexp. 286
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