num_pages: 278
description: This volume contains the earliest essays, going back more than 30 years, in which the author staked out his position on 'the nature, scope, methods &amp; values of psychiatry.'PrefacePreface to the 1st EditionAcknowledgmentsThe myth of mental illnessThe mental health ethic The rhetoric of rejectionMental health as ideologyWhat psychiatry can &amp; cannot doBootlegging humanistic values through psychiatryThe insanity plea &amp; the insanity verdictInvoluntary mental hospitalization: a crime against humanityMental health services in the schoolPsychiatry, the state &amp; the university: the problem of the professional identity of academic psychiatryPsychiatric classification as a strategy of personal constraintWhither psychiatry?Index
language: English
title: Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man
titlecomplete: Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man
characters: Sigmund Freud
genres: Psychiatry, Reference, Politics, Philosophy, Mental Health, Collections, Psychology, Nonfiction, Essays, Sociology
ratings_count: 99
publisher: Syracuse University Press (NY)