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Our psychiatric future : the politics of mental health
- Title
- Our psychiatric future : the politics of mental health / Nikolas Rose.
- Author
- Rose, Nikolas S.
- Publication
- Medford, MA : Polity, 2019.
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- Description
- x, 269 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Our everyday lives are increasingly intertwined with psychiatry and discussions of mental health. Yet the dominant medical discipline of psychiatry remains surrounded by controversy. Is mental distress really an illness like any other, treatable by drugs? Can psychiatrists differentiate mental disorder from normal eccentricities, anxieties, or even sadness? Should the power of psychiatrists be challenged by the knowledge of those with lived experience of mental ill health? In this penetrating analysis, Nikolas Rose critiques the powerful part that psychiatry has come to play in the lives of so many across the world. A series of chapters, each tackling an area of dispute head on, opens wide the terrain of debate addressing issues such as advances in brain science, the politics of Western psychiatry's spread across the globe, and recent evidence of social adversity's role in producing mental ill health.
- Subject
- Mental health > Social aspects
- Psychiatry
- Mental health policy
- Mental health
- Medical policy
- Mental Health
- Psychiatry
- Health Policy
- mental health
- Mental health
- Medical policy
- Mental health policy
- Mental health > Social aspects
- Gesundheitspolitik
- Psychiatrie
- Psychische Gesundheit
- Psychische Störung
- Psychopathologie
- Sozialpsychiatrie
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-257) and index.
- Contents
- What is psychiatry? -- Is there really an "epidemic" of mental disorder? -- Is it all the fault of neoliberal capitalism? -- If mental disorders exist, how shall we know them? -- Are mental disorders "brain disorders"? -- Does psychopharmacology have a future? -- Who needs global mental health? -- Experts by experience? -- Is another psychiatry possible?
- ISBN
- 9780745689111
- 0745689116
- 9780745689128
- 0745689124
- 9780745689159 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018009173
- OCLC
- on1028613671
- 1028613671
- SCSB-9781770
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library