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Record Nr.

UNINA9910799982703321

Autore

Coppock Vicki

Titolo

Critical perspectives on mental health / / Vicki Coppock and John Hopton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routlege, , 2000

ISBN

1-135-35841-9

1-280-06009-3

1-135-35842-7

0-203-12959-8

0-203-17001-6

9786610060092

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HoptonJohn <1956->

Disciplina

616.89/001

Soggetti

Psychiatry - Philosophy

Antipsychiatry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-206) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The historical maze; From asylum to community: relocating psychiatry; Alternative models of managing mental distress; Anti-psychiatry: passing fad or force for change?; Gender and race critiques of psychiatry; Crises of legitimacy; Towards a new critical perspective on mental health care; Implications for practice; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Over the last forty years, there have been numerous attempts to critique the theory and practice of mental health care. Taking its lead from anti-psychiatry, Critical Perspectives on Mental Health seeks to explore and evaluate the claims of mainstream mental health ideologies and to establish what implications the critiques of these perspectives have for practice.  This text will be essential reading for students and those working in the social work and mental health care professions.