num_pages: 240
description: Resistance and social movements in mental health have been important in shaping current practice in both mental health and psychiatry. Contesting Psychiatry , focusing largely on the UK, examines the history of resistance to psychiatry between 1950 and 2000. Building on the author’s extensive research, the book provides an empirical account and exploration of the key features Original and provocative in its approach, this book offers a new sociological perspective on psychiatry.
language: English
title: Contesting Psychiatry: Social Movements in Mental Health
publisher: Routledge