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Critical Psychiatry

The Limits of Madness

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  • © 2006

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  1. D. B. Double

    1. University of East Anglia, Japan

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Critical Psychiatry: Challenging the Biomedical Dominance of Psychiatry

      • D. B. Double
      Pages 3-15

  3. Anti-psychiatry and Critical Psychiatry in Retrospect

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Historical Perspectives on Anti-psychiatry

      • D. B. Double
      Pages 19-39

    3. From Anti-psychiatry to Critical Psychiatry

      • John M. Heaton
      Pages 41-59

    4. Transcultural Mental Health Care: The Challenge to Positivist Psychiatry

      • David Ingleby
      Pages 61-78

  4. The Prospect of Critical Psychiatry

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. The Limits of Biomedical Models of Distress

      • Lucy Johnstone
      Pages 81-98

    3. Understanding Psychiatry’s Resistance to Change

      • Terry Lynch
      Pages 99-113

    4. The Politics of Psychiatric Drug Treatment

      • Joanna Moncrieff
      Pages 115-132

    5. British Mental Health Social Work and the Psychosocial Approach in Context

      • Shulamit Ramon
      Pages 133-148

    6. Democracy, Citizenship and the Radical Possibilities of Postpsychiatry

      • Pat Bracken, Philip Thomas
      Pages 149-164

    7. The Biopsychological Approach in Psychiatry: The Meyerian Legacy

      • D. B. Double
      Pages 165-187

    8. Critical Child Psychiatry

      • Sami Timimi
      Pages 189-206

  5. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207
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    2. Critical Psychiatry and Conflict: Renewing Mental Health Practice

      • D. B. Double
      Pages 209-225

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 227-251
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About this book

Psychiatry is increasingly dominated by the reductionist claim that mental illness is caused by neurobiological abnormalities. Critical psychiatry disagrees with this and proposes a more ethical foundation for practice. This book describes an original framework for renewing mental health services in alliance with people with mental health problems.

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'This is a classic work that everyone working in mental health should read. Even if you don't agree with what the authors say, it will certainly encourage you to think - critically.' - Mental Health Today

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of East Anglia, Japan

    D. B. Double

About the editor

PAT BRACKEN Clinical Director of the West Cork Mental Health Services, Ireland JOHN HEATON Psychotherapist in the UK and one-time colleague of R.D. Laing DAVID INGLEBY Professor of Intercultural Psychology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands TERRY LYNCH Medical Practitioner and Psychotherapist in Limerick, Republic of Ireland LUCY JOHNSTONE Clinical Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of the West of England, UK JOANNA MONCRIEFF Senior Lecturer in Social and Community Psychiatry, University College London, UK SHULAMIT RAMON Professor of Interprofessional Health and Social Studies, Anglia Polytechnic University, UK PHILIP THOMAS Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Citizenship and Community Mental Health, University of Bradford, UK SAMI TIMIMI Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Trust, UK.

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