Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man
Pages: 278
|Published: 1 Jan 1970
Description
This volume contains the earliest essays, going back more than 30 years, in which the author staked out his position on 'the nature, scope, methods & values of psychiatry. '
Preface
Preface to the 1st Edition
Acknowledgments
The myth of mental illness
The mental health ethic
The rhetoric of rejection
Mental health as ideology
What psychiatry can & cannot do
Bootlegging humanistic values through psychiatry
The insanity plea & the insanity verdict
Involuntary mental hospitalization: a crime against humanity
Mental health services in the school
Psychiatry, the state & the university: the problem of the professional identity of academic psychiatry
Psychiatric classification as a strategy of personal constraint
Whither psychiatry?
Index
Preface
Preface to the 1st Edition
Acknowledgments
The myth of mental illness
The mental health ethic
The rhetoric of rejection
Mental health as ideology
What psychiatry can & cannot do
Bootlegging humanistic values through psychiatry
The insanity plea & the insanity verdict
Involuntary mental hospitalization: a crime against humanity
Mental health services in the school
Psychiatry, the state & the university: the problem of the professional identity of academic psychiatry
Psychiatric classification as a strategy of personal constraint
Whither psychiatry?
Index
