There is growing international resistance to the oppressiveness of
psychiatry. While previous studies have critiqued psychiatry,
Psychiatry Disrupted goes beyond theorizing what is wrong with it
to theorizing how we might stop it. Introducing readers to the
arguments and rationale for opposing psychiatry, the book combines
perspectives from anti-psychiatry and critical psychiatry activism,
mad activism, antiracist, critical, and radical disability studies,
as well as feminist, Marxist, and anarchist thought. The editors
and contributors are activists and academics - adult education and
social work professors, psychologists, prominent leaders in the
psychiatric survivor movement, and artists - from across Canada,
England, and the United States. From chapters discussing feminist
opposition to the medicalization of human experience, to the links
between psychiatry and neo-liberalism, to internal tensions within
the various movements and different identities from which people
organize, the collection theorizes psychiatry while contributing to
a range of scholarship and presenting a comprehensive overview of
resistance to psychiatry in the academy and in the community.
Contributors include Simon Adam (University of Toronto), Rosemary
Barnes University of Toronto, Peter Beresford (Brunel University),
Bonnie Burstow (University of Toronto), Chris Chapman (York
University), Mark Cresswell (Durham University), Shaindl Diamond
(York University), Chava Finkler (Memorial University), Ambrose
Kirby (therapist in private practice, Brenda A. LeFrancois
(Memorial University of Newfoundland), Mick McKeown (University of
Central Lancashire), Robert Menzies (Simon Fraser University),
China Mills (Oxford University), Tina Minkowitz (World Network of
Users and Survivors of Psychiatry), Ian Parker (University of
Leicester), Susan Schellenberg, Helen Spandler (University of
Central Lancashire), and AJ Withers (York University). A courageous
anthology, Psychiatry Disrupted is a timely work that asks
compelling activist questions that no other book in the field
touches.
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