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Psychiatric Hegemony - A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Psychiatric Hegemony - A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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This book offers a comprehensive Marxist critique of the business
of mental health, demonstrating how the prerogatives of neoliberal
capitalism for productive, self-governing citizens have allowed the
discourse on mental illness to expand beyond the psychiatric
institution into many previously untouched areas of public and
private life including the home, school and the workplace. Through
historical and contemporary analysis of psy-professional
knowledge-claims and practices, Bruce Cohen shows how the extension
of psychiatric authority can only be fully comprehended through the
systematic theorising of power relations within capitalist society.
From schizophrenia and hysteria to Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder, from spinning chairs
and lobotomies to shock treatment and antidepressants, from the
incarceration of working class women in the nineteenth century to
the torture of prisoners of the 'war on terror' in the
twenty-first, Psychiatric Hegemony is an uncompromising account of
mental health ideology in neoliberal society.
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