Inscription, Diagnosis, Deception and the Mental Health Industry How Psy Governs Us All

by Newnes, Craig

• ISBN13: 9780230293663
• ISBN10: 0230293662
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-10-20
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Do you ever wonder how psychology came to dominate everything from the sports pages in daily newspapers to the language we use to describe ourselves? This historical analysis by one of the UK's leading critical psychologists answers that question by exploring the history of the harm caused by the Psy professions, the complicity of governments in the expansion of the psychology, psychiatric and pharmaceutical industries, and some ways of resisting that expansion. From incarceration to lobotomy, ECT to psychotherapy and diagnosis to death-making, the Psy industry continues to govern us all. This scholarly critique shows how.

Author Biography

Craig Newnes is a critic of the Psy industry who has edited and authored numerous books, book chapters and academic articles. He is Editor of The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy and was previously an editor of Clinical Psychology Forum. He was Director of Psychological Therapies for Shropshire's Community and Mental Health Services Trust and chair of the BPS Psychotherapy Section. He is the editor of the book series Critical Examinations, which included his book Clinical Psychology: A Critical Examination. He is an Honorary Lecturer at over a dozen a dozen universities. In 2005 he won the CCHR Award in Human Rights for over twenty years of speaking out about the Psy Complex.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Thou Shalt Not Kill
2. The Service Wounds
3. Labelling and Languaging the Other
4. Rejection: Exclusion and Incarceration
5. Assault as 'Treatment'
6. Drugging Our Way to Oblivion.
7. A Mouthful of Air: Talking Therapies and the Emperor's New Clothes
8. Governing Professions I: Us and Them
9. Governing Professions II: Them and Us
10. So It Goes