Psychiatry, mental institutions, and the mad in apartheid South Africa
By: By Tiffany Fawn Jones
Series: African studies: history, politics, economics, and culture; African studies (Routledge (Firm))
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415886673
Subjects: Race relations; Mentally ill; Commitment and detention; Abuse of; Mental health policy; Mental health services
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prospects of a progressive mental health system in South Africa before apartheid: Tara Hospital and psychobiology, c.1939-1948; title: The "disordered" state: government policies and institutions for the administration of the mad during apartheid, 1948-1973; title: Patient accounts: life in state institutions and challenging exile, 1939-1961; title: Heinous crimes: community and cross-cultural psychiatry, and state mental health services for non-whites, 1948-1990; title: Controlling and challenging sexuality: psychiatric struggles over homosexuality in the 1960s-1980s; title: "Monopoly on madness?": private long-term mental institutions in South Africa, 1963-1989; title: Critics of the system?: the Church of Scientology and the international vilification of psychiatry in South Africa; title: Conclusion.