Overview
- Includes dialogues with various leaders in the movement for an intersectional analysis
- Makes an effort to unify multiple movements into one conversation without oversimplifying discrete critiques
- Provides an excellent overview of the complex issues involved in anti/critical psychiatry
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
A real eye-opener, this riveting anti/critical psychiatry book is comprised of original cutting-edge dialogues between Burstow (an antipsychiatry theorist and activist) and other leaders in the “revolt against psychiatry,” including radical practitioners, lawyers, reporters, activists, psychiatric survivors, academics, family members, and artists. People in dialogue with the author include Indigenous leader Roland Chrisjohn, psychiatrist Peter Breggin, survivor Lauren Tenney, and scholar China Mills. The single biggest focus/tension in the book is a psychiatry abolition position versus a critical psychiatry (or reformist) position. In the scope of this project, Burstow considers the ways racism, genocide, Indigeneity, sexism, media bias, madness, neurodiversity, and strategic activism are intertwined with critical and antipsychiatry.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bonnie Burstow, PhD, is Professor of Adult Education and Community Development at OISE/University of Toronto, one of the world’s leading antipsychiatry theorists and activists, and author of such seminal works as Psychiatry and the Business of Madness.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Revolt Against Psychiatry
Book Subtitle: A Counterhegemonic Dialogue
Authors: Bonnie Burstow
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23331-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23330-3Published: 28 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23333-4Published: 28 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23331-0Published: 20 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 243
Topics: Critical Psychology, Psychiatry, Health Administration, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Social Work and Community Development