Critical Psychiatry: The Limits of Madness

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Critical Psychiatry: Challenging the Biomedical Dominance of Psychiatry....Pages 3-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Historical Perspectives on Anti-psychiatry....Pages 19-39
From Anti-psychiatry to Critical Psychiatry....Pages 41-59
Transcultural Mental Health Care: The Challenge to Positivist Psychiatry....Pages 61-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
The Limits of Biomedical Models of Distress....Pages 81-98
Understanding Psychiatry’s Resistance to Change....Pages 99-113
The Politics of Psychiatric Drug Treatment....Pages 115-132
British Mental Health Social Work and the Psychosocial Approach in Context....Pages 133-148
Democracy, Citizenship and the Radical Possibilities of Postpsychiatry....Pages 149-164
The Biopsychological Approach in Psychiatry: The Meyerian Legacy....Pages 165-187
Critical Child Psychiatry....Pages 189-206
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Critical Psychiatry and Conflict: Renewing Mental Health Practice....Pages 209-225
Back Matter....Pages 227-251