Overview
- Rigorously researched but accessible book that will appeal to highly mobilized scholar-activist networks
- Timely addition to broader cultural conversation about the failures of mental health systems
- Use of institutional ethnography methodology provides more comprehensive critique of psychiatry than other similar titles
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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“Psychiatry Interrogated is a powerful and compelling work, that demonstrates how common reactions of the how-can-that-happen? variety can serve as springboards to unraveling and exposing the complex, repressive, and inherently destructive nature of psychiatry. Each chapter has an extensive reference list for those who wish to pursue any of the topics in greater depth. The book is dedicated to ‘everyone everywhere who has ever fallen prey to institutional psychiatry.” (Psychiatric Survivors, psychiatricsurvivors.wordpress.com, February, 2017)
“Psychiatry Interrogated is a powerful and compelling work, that demonstrates how common reactions of the how-can-that-happen? variety can serve as springboards to unraveling and exposing the complex, repressive, and inherently destructive nature of psychiatry. Each chapter has an extensive reference list for thosewho wish to pursue any of the topics in greater depth. The book is dedicated to ‘everyone everywhere who has ever fallen prey to institutional psychiatry.’” (Mad in America, madinamerica.com, January, 2017)
“This is the first book I am aware of to combine critical interrogation of the relations of psychiatry with approaches influenced by institutional ethnography. Chapters open up for investigation a number of the terrains of psychiatric practice that must be challenged and transformed. For those concerned with psychiatry as a ruling relation this is an important opening up of inquiry.” (Gary Kinsman, scholar, activist, and co-author of “The Canadian War on Queers and an editor of Sociology for Changing the World”)
“The institutional ethnography focus distinguishes this book from any other book that is critical of psychiatry. Likewise, the critique of psychiatry within its pages enters into several under-explored corners of psychiatric oppression and thus distinguishes it from any other book written in the field of institutional ethnography. This book, then, must be read as an important contribution not only to sociology and institutional ethnography, but also to the theorizing and exposing of psychiatry as a regime of ruling taking place within critiques of psychiatry.” (Brenda A. LeFrançois, Professor, School of Social Work, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, and Editor of “Intersectionalities”)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Psychiatry Interrogated
Book Subtitle: An Institutional Ethnography Anthology
Editors: Bonnie Burstow
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41174-3
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) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-41173-6Published: 04 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-42473-6Published: 07 November 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-41174-3Published: 09 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 241
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Critical Psychology, History of Psychology, Medical Sociology, Psychiatry, Social Work and Community Development