Title: Liberatory psychiatry : philosophy, politics, and mental health /
Authors: Cohen, Carl I.; Timimi, Sami.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Social psychiatry.; Psychology and philosophy.; Political psychology.; Physician's Role psychology; Psychiatry; Social Medicine; Politics; Social Change; Social Problems psychology; Social Responsibility
Abstract: "Psychiatry can help people to be both "free from" and "free to." It can free persons from social, physical, and psychological oppression, and can assist people to be free to flourish and to lead self-directed lives. Furthermore, because social realities impact on mental well-being, psychiatry has a critical role to play in social struggles that further liberation. These are the basic foundations of liberatory psychiatry." "This book confronts the psychological impact of these changes, and presents new ideas to help develop the liberatory potential of psychiatry. This book should be read by mental health practitioners from the widest range of disciplines and those interested in social theory, philosophy, and political science."--Jacket.
Contents: Working towards a liberatory psychiatry? Radicalizing the science of human psychology and behavior -- Power, freedom, and mental health: a postpsychiatry perspective -- Challenging risk: a critique of defensive practice -- Democracy in psychiatry: or why psychiatry needs a new constitution -- German critical psychology as emancipatory psychology -- Psychopolitical validity in the helping professions: applications to research, interventions, case conceptualization, and therapy -- Class exploitation and psychiatric disorders: from status syndrome to capitalist syndrome -- Ecological, individual, ecological? Moving public health psychiatry into a new era -- Children's mental health and the global market: an ecological analysis -- Postcolonial psychiatry: the empire strikes back? Or, the untapped promise of multiculturalism -- A new psychiatry for a new world: postcolonialism, postmodernism, and the integration of premodern thought into psychiatry -- Neoliberalism and biopsychiatry: a marriage of convenience -- Psychoanalysis and social change: the Latin American experience -- A new psychiatry?