The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health
offers the most comprehensive collection of theoretical and applied
writings to date with which students, scholars, researchers and
practitioners within the social and health sciences can
systematically problematise the practices, priorities and knowledge
base of the Western system of mental health. With the continuing
contested nature of psychiatric discourse and the work of
psy-professionals, this book is a timely return to theorising the
business of mental health as a social, economic, political and
cultural project: one which necessarily involves the consideration
of wider societal and structural dynamics including labelling and
deviance, ideological and social control, professional power,
consumption, capital, neoliberalism and self-governance. Featuring
original essays from some of the most established international
scholars in the area, the Handbook discusses and provides updates
on critical theories of mental health from labelling, social
constructionism, antipsychiatry, Foucauldian and Marxist approaches
to critical feminist, race and queer theory, critical realism,
critical cultural theory and mad studies. Over six substantive
sections, the collection additionally demonstrates the application
of such theoretical ideas and scholarship to key topics including
medicalisation and pharmaceuticalisation, the DSM, global
psychiatry, critical histories of mental health, and talk therapy.
Bringing together the latest theoretical work and empirical case
studies from the US, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and
Canada, the Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental
Health demonstrates the continuing need to think critically about
mental health and illness, and will be an essential resource for
all who study or work in the field.
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