- Hardcover: 268 pages
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1 edition (12 July 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0230001289
- ISBN-13: 978-0230001282
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 16.3 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,322,084 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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
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Anti-psychiatry, as represented by authors such as R.D. Laing and Thomas Szasz, was an anti-authoritarian, popular, even romantic, attack on psychiatrists' use of psychiatric diagnosis, drug and ECT treatment and involuntary hospitalisation. Sufficient time has elapsed to restate the critique of psychiatry. Critical psychiatry represents an advance over the polarisation in the debate engendered by anti-psychiatry. This book resolutely encourages critical thinking about psychiatry and is based on critical theory about the basis of psychiatry. It is a multi-authored text and many of the contributors are members of the Critical Psychiatry Network (www.criticalpsychiatry.co.uk) . Their essential message is that psychiatry can be practised without the justification of postulating brain pathology as the basis for mental illness.
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