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Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus - Repression, Transformation and Assistance (Paperback)
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Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus - Repression, Transformation and Assistance (Paperback)
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Drawing on a broad range of approaches in the fields of sociology,
anthropology, political science, history, philosophy, medicine and
nursing, Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus exposes psychiatric
practices that are mobilized along the continuum of repression,
transformation and assistance. It critically examines taken for
granted psychiatric practices both past and current, shedding light
on the often political nature of psychiatry and reconceptualizing
its central and sensitive issues through the radical theory of
figures such as Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Goffman, and Szasz.
As such, this ground-breaking collection embraces a broad
understanding of psychiatric practices and engages the reader in a
critical understanding of their effects, challenging the
discipline's altruistic rhetoric of therapy and problematizing the
ways in which this is operationalized in practice. A comprehensive
exploration of contested psychiatric practices in healthcare
settings, this interdisciplinary volume brings together recent
scholarship from the US, Canada, the UK, Europe and Australia, to
provide a rich array of theoretical tools with which to engage with
questions related to psychiatric power, discipline and control,
while theorizing their workings in creative and imaginative ways.
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