Peter Sedgwick
PsychoPolitics
PsychoPolitics
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William Davis' book "The Happiness Industry" is a powerful and impassioned defense of psychiatry that challenges the anti-psychiatry movement and exposes the conservative undercurrents and false hopes it represents. This new edition, with a new introduction, further cements the book's cult classic status and its relevance to modern mental health movements, the practice of psychiatry, and left-wing activists.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 20 August 2022
Publisher: Pluto Press
A forceful and fervent defense of psychiatry is presented in the following text, urging the Left to face the harsh realities of mental illness. - William Davis, author of The Happiness Industry
A revised edition of one of the most influential and reliable critiques of the anti-psychiatry movement. The book, which was first published in 1982, has remained relevant in the present day, challenging the relationship between mental health and illness and the decline of social institutions. Sedgwick critically examined the works of popular anti-psychiatric thinkers such as Erving Goffman, R.D. Laing, Michel Foucault, and Thomas Szasz, unveiling the conservative undercurrents and false hopes represented by the alternative psychiatry of the 1960s and 1970s. He also challenged the real impact of this alternative psychiatry on our collective responsibility to care for the mentally ill.
In the new introduction to this edition, Sedgwick emphasizes the relevance of his demands for modern mental health movements, the practice of psychiatry, and left-wing activists. This revised edition further solidifies PsychoPolitics' cult classic status.
Weight: 324g
Dimension: 140 x 217 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780745347226
Edition number: 2 New edition
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