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Postpsychiatry

Postpsychiatry

Mental health in a postmodern world

9780198526094
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How are we to make sense of madness and psychosis? For most of us the words conjure up images from television and newspapers of seemingly random, meaningless violence. It is something to be feared, something to be left to the experts. But is madness best thought of as a medical condition? Psychiatrists and the drug industry maintain that psychoses are brain disorders amenable to treatment with drugs, but is this actually so? There is no convincing evidence that the brain isdisordered in psychosis, yet governments across the world are investing huge sums of money on mental health services that take for granted the idea that psychosis is an illness to be treated with medication. Although some people who use mental health services find medication helpful, many do not, and resistthe idea that their experiences are symptoms of illnesses like schizophrenia. Consequently they are forced into having treatment against their wishes. So, how do we make sense of this situation? Postpsychiatry addresses these questions. It involves an attempt to rethink some of the fundamental assumptions of mental health work, showing how recent developments in philosophy and ethics can help us to clarify some of the dilemmas and conflicts around different understandings of madness. Throughout, the authors examine the conflicting ways in which politicians, academics, and mental health professionals appear to understand madness, and contrast this with voices and experiencesthat are usually excluded - those of the people who use mental health services. They then examine the power of psychiatry to shape how we understand ourselves and our emotions, before considering some of the basic limitations of psychiatry as science to make madness meaningful. In the final section of thebook they draw on evidence from service users and survivors, the humanities and anthropology, to point out a new direction for mental health practice. This new direction emphasises the importance of cultural contexts in understanding madness, placing ethics before technology in responding to madness, and minimising therapeutic coercion.
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OUP Oxford
82866
9780198526094
9780198526094

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Publication date
2005
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
312
Dimensions (mm)
156 x 233
Weight (g)
494
  • Introduction: The times they are a-changin; Doing their best; Values, evidence, conflict; What counts as evidence?; The miracle drug; The battle for acceptance: defining the relationship between medicine and the world of madness and distress; The ring; Foregrounding contexts: what kinds of understanding are appropriate in the world of mental illness?; Losing Peter; Mind, language and meaning; Beetles; Ethics before technology - is treatment the best way to think about mental health work?; Narrative and the ethics of representation; Meaning and recovery; Citizenship and the politics of identity; Are you local? Responding to the challenge of globalisation in mental health; The veil;
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