Psycho politics
Subtitle: Laing, Foucault, Goffman, Szasz and the future of mass psychiatry
By: Peter Sedgwick ; foreword by Helen Spandler, Robert Dellar, Alastair Kemp
Contributors: Spandler, Helen, writer of foreword; Dellar, Robert, writer of foreword; Kemp, Alastair, writer of foreword
Publisher: Unkant Publishers
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780992650957
Subjects: Antipsychiatry; Psychiatry; Philosophy
Notes: "First published in Great Britain by Pluto Press Limited."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword -- -- Part one; title: Anti-psychiatry:; title: Anti-psychiatry, illness and the mentally ill --; title: Psycho-medical dualism: the case of Erving Goffman --; title: R.D. Laing: The radical trip --; title: R.D. Laing: The return to psychiatry --; title: Michel Foucault: The anti-history of psychiatry --; title: Psychiatry and politics in Thomas Szasz -- -- Part two; title: Psychiatry and liberation:; title: Mental health movements and issues: a survey and prospect --; title: Appendix: The fate of psychiatry in the new populism.