Politics of Mental Health and Illness – serie
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Revolutionary Psychologist’s Guide to Radical Therapy
Av Jon Hook, Frank Gruba-McCallister
Inbunden, 2025
469 kr
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The Revolutionary Psychologist’s Guide to Radical Therapy presents a bold, comprehensive framework for anti-capitalist psychotherapy. Edited by Jon Hook and Frank Gruba-McCallister, this volume features leading voices in radical psychology who challenge the ideological foundations of mainstream …
Mad Knowledges and User-Led Research
Inbunden, 2022
1128 kr
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This book presents a critical examination of the development of user involvement within research, and investigates the issues currently preventing a productive integration of Mad knowledges within research and practice. Drawing on social, linguistic and critical theories, it proposes the conditions …
Mad Knowledges and User-Led Research
Häftad, 2023
1128 kr
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This book presents a critical examination of the development of user involvement within research, and investigates the issues currently preventing a productive integration of Mad knowledges within research and practice. Drawing on social, linguistic and critical theories, it proposes the conditions …
Psychiatric Oppression in Women's Lives
Creative Resistance and Collective Dissent
Av Emma Tseris, Scarlett Franks m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
2029 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of women's experiences within mental health services, demonstrating the need for a radical paradigm shift in how women's distress and experiences are understood. Drawing on extensive fieldwork on coercive mental health treatment, including interviews, …
Psychiatric Oppression in Women's Lives
Creative Resistance and Collective Dissent
Av Emma Tseris, Scarlett Franks m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
1464 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of women's experiences within mental health services, demonstrating the need for a radical paradigm shift in how women's distress and experiences are understood. Drawing on extensive fieldwork on coercive mental health treatment, including interviews, …
Construction of Eating Disorders
Psychiatry, Politics and Cultural Representations of Disordered Eating
Inbunden, 2024
1688 kr
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This ground breaking book draws on original research to critically examine the construction of eating disorders and disordered eating, in an analysis that encompasses psychiatry, cultural representations, and the politics of eating disorders. Challenging the idea that disordered eating is an …
Construction of Eating Disorders
Psychiatry, Politics and Cultural Representations of Disordered Eating
Häftad, 2025
1688 kr
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This ground breaking book draws on original research to critically examine the construction of eating disorders and disordered eating, in an analysis that encompasses psychiatry, cultural representations, and the politics of eating disorders. Challenging the idea that disordered eating is an …
Under the Gaze of Global Mental Health
A Critical Reflection
Av Janaka Jayawickrama, Jerome Wright
Inbunden, 2025
1861 kr
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This book critically examines how the globalisation of mental health through the dominant medical model has created barriers to understanding and responding to distress with reference to cases from Malawi and Sri Lanka. Its authors argue that mental health must be understood within the overall …
Under the Gaze of Global Mental Health
A Critical Reflection
Av Janaka Jayawickrama, Jerome Wright
Häftad, 2026
1464 kr
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This book critically examines how the globalisation of mental health through the dominant medical model has created barriers to understanding and responding to distress with reference to cases from Malawi and Sri Lanka. Its authors argue that mental health must be understood within the overall …
Critical Mental Health in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
Social and Historical Perspectives
Av Natalie Ann Hendry, Effie Karageorgos
Inbunden, 2025
1688 kr
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This interdisciplinary volume examines the social production of mental health and illness in Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand). It draws together cutting-edge critical mental health scholarship from the region, to interrogate how personal, community, institutional and mediated relations, make …
Critical Mental Health in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
Social and Historical Perspectives
Av Natalie Ann Hendry, Effie Karageorgos
Häftad, 2026
1688 kr
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This interdisciplinary volume examines the social production of mental health and illness in Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand). It draws together cutting-edge critical mental health scholarship from the region, to interrogate how personal, community, institutional and mediated relations, make …
Mad Studies and Education
Critical Pedagogy and Mad Praxis in the Classroom
Av Adam Davies, Lauren Spring m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1464 kr
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At a time when educators are increasingly asked to take responsibility for the ‘mental health’ of students, this edited collection critiques the processes of surveillance and exclusion that can accompany such endeavours. Instead of considering madness as something to be ‘overcome,’ its authors ask …
Addiction and the Medicalisation of Conspicuous Behaviour
New Critical Perspectives
Av Bruce M. Z. Cohen, Martin Harbusch m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1576 kr
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This volume critically interrogates the dominant understanding of ‘addiction’ and ‘addicts’. It examines the proliferation of the addiction concept by psychiatry and other psy-professions, exploring the processes and underlying drivers of this form of medicalisation. Through discussions from …
Therapeutic (In)justice and the Shadow Carceral State
An Ethnographic Study in Mental Health Courtrooms
Inbunden, 2026
507 kr
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This open access book draws on unique ethnographic fieldwork carried out in four Quebec mental health courtrooms to examine the role courts play in the organization and implementation of psychiatric coercion. It provides a much-needed critical and empirical analysis of these judicial practices at a …
Medical Critical Theory
From the Phenomenology of Embodied Social Suffering to Demedicalizing Emancipation
Av Domonkos Sik
Inbunden, 2026
1508 kr
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Medical Critical Theory introduces an interdisciplinary framework for understanding how illness experience and social suffering intersect in late modern societies. Drawing on critical theory, medical phenomenology, phenomenological psychopathology, and social epidemiology, Domonkos Sik examines how …
