Contesting psychiatry
Subtitle: social movements in mental health
By: Nick Crossley.
Series: Critical studies in health and society
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Antipsychiatry -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History; Mental health services -- Great Britain -- History; Social psychiatry -- Great Britain -- History; Social movements -- Great Britain -- History; Psychiatry -- history -- Great Britain; History, 20th Century -- Great Britain; Mental Health Services -- history -- Great Britain; Patient Rights -- history -- Great Britain; Public Opinion -- Great Britain; Social Change -- history -- Great Britain; Social Control Policies -- history -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Researching resistance; title: Social movements, SMOs and fields of contention; title: A value-added model of mobilisation; title: contextualising contention; title: Mental hygiene and early protests; title: Anti-psychiatry and "The Sixties"; title: Parents, people and a radical change of mind; title: A union of mental patients; title: Networks, survivors and international connections; title: Consolidation and backlash.