Routledge international handbook of critical mental health / edited by Bruce M.Z. Cohen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cohen, Bruce M. Z., 1968- editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Routledge international handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental health.

Mental illness.

Mental Health.

Mental Disorders.

Medical Subjects:

Mental Health.

Mental Disorders.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

International handbook of critical mental health

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health offers the most comprehensive collection of theoretical and applied writings to date with which students, scholars, researchers and practitioners within the social and health sciences can systematically problematise the practices, priorities and knowledge base on the Western system of mental health. With the continuing contested nature of psychiatric discourse and the work of psy-professionals, this book is a timely return to theorising the business of mental health as a social, economic, political and cultural project: one which necessarily involves the consideration of wider societal and structural dynamics including labelling and deviance, ideological and social control, professional power, consumption, capital, neoliberalism and self-governance. Featuring original essays from some of the most establised international scholars in the area, the Handbook discusses and provides updates on critical theories of mental health from labelling, social constructionism, antipsychiatry. Foucauldian and Marxist approaches to critical feminist, race and queer theory, critical cultural theory and mad studies. Over six substantive sections, the collection additionally demonstrates the application of such theoretical ideas and scholarship to key topics including medicalisation and pharmaceuticalisation, the DSM, global psychiatry, critical histories of mental health, and talk therapy. Bringing together the latest theoretical work and empirical case studies from the US, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Canada, the Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health demonstrates the continuing need to think critically about mental health and illness, and will be an essential resource for all who study or work in the field. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Theoretical perspectives 13

1 Labelling theory / Stefan Sjöström Sjöström, Stefan 15

2 The social construction of mental illness / Kevin White White, Kevin 24

3 'Mental health' praxis - not the answer: a constructive antipsychiatry position / Bonnie Burstow Burstow, Bonnie 31

4 Foucauldian theory / Simone Fullagar Fullagar, Simone 39

5 Marxist theory / Bruce M. Z. Cohen Cohen, Bruce M. Z. 46

6 Critical cultural theory / Sami Timimi Timimi, Sami 56

7 Critical realism and mental health research / David Pilgrim Pilgrim, David 64

8 A critical feminist analysis of madness: pathologising femininity through psycliiatric discourse / Jane M. Ussher Ussher, Jane M. 72

9 Critical race theory and mental health / Roy Moodley Moodley, Roy, Falak Mujtaba Mujtaba, Falak, Sela Kleiman Kleiman, Sela 79

10 Trapped in change: using queer theory to examine the progress of psy-theories and interventions with sexuality and gender / Shaindl Diamond Diamond, Shaindl 89

11 Reflections on critical psychiatry / Pat Bracken Bracken, Pat, Phil Thomas Thomas, Phil 98

12 Mad studies / Rachel Gorman Gorman, Rachel, Brenda A. LeFrançois LeFrançois, Brenda A. 107

Part II Critical histories of psychiatry 115

13 Madness: a critical history of 'mental health care' in the United States / Tomi Gomory Gomory, Tomi, Daniel J. Dunleavy Dunleavy, Daniel J. 117

14 Medieval mysticism to schizoaffective disorder: the repositioning of subjectivity in the discourse of psychiatry / Alison Torn Torn, Alison 126

15 The myth of the Irish insanity epidemic / Damien Brennan Brennan, Damien 133

16 Autism looping / Gil Eyal Eyal, Gil 141

Part III Medicalisation and pharmaceuticalisation 151

17 The changing drivers of medicalisation / Meredith R. Bergey Bergey, Meredith R. 153

18 Female sexual dysfunction: medicalising desire / Annemarie Jutel Jutel, Annemarie, Barbara Mintzes Mintzes, Barbara 162

19 Biomedicine, neoliberalism and the pharmaceuticalisation ot society / Emma Tseris Tseris, Emma 169

Part IV The politics of diagnosis 177

20 The DSM and the spectre of ignorance: psychiatric classification as a tool of professional power / Owen Whooley Whooley, Owen 179

21 The attributes of mad science / David Cohen Cohen, David, Tomi Gomory Gomory, Tomi, Stuart A. Kirk Kirk, Stuart A. 186

22 Racialisation of the schizophrenia diagnosis / Suman Fernando Fernando, Suman 195

Part V Colonial and global psychiatry 203

23 The mad are like savages and the savages are mad: psychopolitics and the coloniality of the psy / China Mills Mills, China 205

24 Therapeutic imperialism in disaster- and conflict-affected countries / Janaka Jayawickrama Jayawickrama, Janaka, Jo Rose Rose, Jo 213

25 Problematising Global Mental Health / Clement Bayetti Bayetti, Clement, Sumeet Jain Jain, Sumeet 224

Part VI Critical approaches to therapy 233

26 A sociology of and in psychotherapy: the seventh sin / Peter Morrall Morrall, Peter 235

27 Marxist theory and psychotherapy / Ian Parker Parker, Ian 244

28 A feminist critique of trauma therapy / Emma Tseris Tseris, Emma 251

29 A journey into the dangers of orthodoxy from the former director of the Freud Archives / Jeffrey M. Masson Masson, Jeffrey M. 258.

Notes:

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 6, 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Routledge international handbook of critical mental health.

ISBN:

9781315399560

1315399563

OCLC:

1004673643

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