PsychoPolitics (Paperback, 2nd New edition)

'A powerful and impassioned defence of psychiatry, urging the Left to confront the harsh realities of mental illness' - William Davis, author of The Happiness Industry A new edition of one of the most significant and credible critiques of the anti-psychiatry movement. As relevant today as it was when first published in 1982, the book changed the conversation on mental health and illness, demanding that we assess its relationship to the wider decay of social institutions. Dissecting the work of popular anti-psychiatric thinkers, Erving Goffman, R.D. Laing, Michel Foucault and Thomas Szasz, Sedgwick exposed the conservative undercurrents and false hopes represented by the alternative psychiatry of the sixties and seventies, challenging the very real impact it had on our collective responsibility to look after the mentally ill. With a new introduction that highlights the relevance of Sedgwick's demands for modern mental health movements, the practice of psychiatry and for left-wing activists, this new edition further cements PsychoPolitics' cult classic status.

General

Imprint:	Pluto Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Peter Sedgwick
Introduction by:	Tad Tietze
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	304
Edition:	2nd New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7453-4722-6
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Care of the mentally ill Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > Health psychology
LSN:	0-7453-4722-3
Barcode:	9780745347226

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