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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 208 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0203170016
  • 9780203170014
  • 9781857288797
  • 1857288793
  • 9781857288803
  • 1857288807
  • 0203129598
  • 9780203129593
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Critical perspectives on mental health.DDC classification:
  • 616.89/001 21
LOC classification:
  • RC437.5 .C67 2000eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 The historical maze -- chapter 2 From asylum to community: relocating psychiatry -- chapter 3 Alternative models of managing mental distress -- chapter 4 Anti-psychiatry: passing fad or force for change? -- chapter 5 Gender and race critiques of psychiatry -- chapter 6 Crises of legitimacy -- chapter 7 Towards a new critical perspective on mental health care -- chapter 8 Implications for practice.
Summary: Using the British mental health services as a case study, this book critically reviews the various social, political and intellectual developments which have shaped psychiatric practice and the delivery of mental health services.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-206) and index.

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Chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 The historical maze -- chapter 2 From asylum to community: relocating psychiatry -- chapter 3 Alternative models of managing mental distress -- chapter 4 Anti-psychiatry: passing fad or force for change? -- chapter 5 Gender and race critiques of psychiatry -- chapter 6 Crises of legitimacy -- chapter 7 Towards a new critical perspective on mental health care -- chapter 8 Implications for practice.

Using the British mental health services as a case study, this book critically reviews the various social, political and intellectual developments which have shaped psychiatric practice and the delivery of mental health services.

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