Liberatory psychiatry : philosophy, politics, and mental health / edited by Carl I. Cohen, Sami Timimi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cohen, Carl I.

Timimi, Sami.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social psychiatry.

Psychology and philosophy.

Political psychology.

Physical Description:

ix, 296 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Summary:

Psychiatry can help people to be both "free from" and "free to." It can free persons from social, physical, and psychological oppression, and can assist people to be free to flourish and to lead self-directed lives. Furthermore, because social realities impacton 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. This book confronts the psychological impact of these changes, and presents new ideas to help develop the liberatory potential of psychiatry.

This book should be read by mental health practitioners from the widest range of discplines and those interested in social theory, philosophy, and political science.

Contents:

1 Working towards a liberatory psychiatry? Radicalizing the science of human psychology and behavior / Carl I. Cohen 9

2 Power, freedom, and mental health: a postpsychiatry perspective / Philip Thomas, Pat Bracken 35

3 Challenging risk: a critique of defensive practice / Duncan Double 55

4 Democracy in psychiatry: or why psychiatry needs a new constitution / Bradley Lewis 73

5 German critical psychology as emancipatory psychology / Charles W. Tolman 89

6 Psychopolitical validity in the helping professions: applications to research, interventions, case conceptualization, and therapy / Isaac Prilleltensky, Ora Prilleltensky, Courte Voorhees 105

7 Class exploitation and psychiatric disorders: from status syndrome to capitalist syndrome / Carles Muntaner, Carme Borrell, Haejoo Chung 131

8 Ecological, individual, ecological? Moving public health psychiatry into a new era / Kwame McKenzie 147

9 Children's mental health and the global market: an ecological analysis / Sami Timimi 163

10 Postcolonial psychiatry: the Empire strikes back? Or, the untapped promise of multiculturalism / Begum Maitra 183

11 A new psychiatry for a new world: postcolonialism, postmodernism, and the integration of premodern thought into psychiatry / Ramotse Saunders, Amjad Hindi, Ipsit Vahia 205

12 Neoliberalism and biopsychiatry: a marriage of convenience / Joanna Moncrieff 235

13 Psychoanalysis and social change: the Latin American experience / Astrid Rusquellas 257

14 A new psychiatry? / Carl I. Cohen, Sami Timimi, Kenneth S. Thompson 275.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521689813

9780521689816

OCLC:

174449800