Critical Psychiatry : A Biography.

Cover -- Half-title -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication page -- Table of Contents -- Meet the author -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Critical psychiatry Or anti-psychiatry -- Psychiatry and the counterculture -- 1 R D Laing: the psychiatrist of the counterculture -- Glasgow -- Major works -- The rumpus room and the establishment of Kingsley Hall -- Kingsley Hall -- Laing, the family and madness -- Mental illness as a journey -- Mad to be normal? -- 2 Michel Foucault -- Madness and Civilization -- Responses to Foucault -- The continuing importance of Foucault -- Conclusion -- 3 Erving Goffman: madness, and the asylum as a total institution -- Stigma -- The Insanity of Place -- Asylums -- Total institutions -- Institutionalisation -- Identity and the loss of self -- Goffman's legacy -- 4 Frantz Fanon: Black Minds Matter - race, psychiatry and revolutionary politics -- Key works -- Othering -- Race, racism and mental health services -- Conclusion -- 5 Thomas Szasz: a libertarian challenge to the 'therapeutic state' -- The Myth of Mental Illness -- The therapeutic state, consent and coercion -- Discussion -- 6 Franco Basaglia: psychiatry as radical politics -- Gramsci -- The radical politics of 1968 -- Basaglia in Gorizia -- Basgalia's Law or Law 180 -- Critical perspectives on Basaglia's work -- Basaglia and contemporary mental health services -- Conclusion -- 7 David Rosenhan: an experiment revisited -- The Rosenhan experiment -- Rosenhan's main conclusions -- Critical responses to Rosenhan -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- 8 Plath, Frame and Kesey: psychiatry and the literary imagination -- The Bell Jar -- The novels of Janet Frame -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -- Psychiatry, ECT and representation -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Community care -- Recovery -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

A history of critical psychiatry that also acts as a call for a new approach to mental health services.

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