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Our Psychiatric Future

Our Psychiatric Future

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Our everyday lives are increasingly intertwined with psychiatry and discussions of mental health. Yet the dominant medical discipline of psychiatry remains surrounded by controversy. Is mental distress really an illness like any other, treatable by drugs? Can psychiatrists differentiate between mental disorders normal eccentricities, anxieties or even sadness? Should the power of psychiatrists be challenged by the knowledge of those with lived experience of mental ill health?

In this penetrating analysis, Nikolas Rose critiques the powerful part that psychiatry has come to play in the lives of so many across the world. A series of chapters, each tackling an area of dispute head on, opens wide the terrain of debate addressing issues such as advances in brain science, the politics of Western psychiatrys spread across the globe, and recent evidence of social adversitys role in producing mental ill health. The answers we find to these pressing questions will shape the psychiatric futures that are being brought into existence. Ultimately, this book proposes a radically different future, no less evidence-based or rigorous, and indeed far more attuned to the realities of mental health, and argues that, as a branch of social medicine, another psychiatry is possible.
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John Wiley and Sons
66203
9780745689128
9780745689128

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Publication date
2018
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
248
Dimensions (mm)
154.00 x 227.00
Weight (g)
430

  • Chapter One: What is psychiatry?

    Our psychiatric lives

    Everyone’s little helpers

    Many psychiatries

    Psychiatry defines the boundaries

    What mental disorder is

    Psychiatry as a political science

    The politics of psychiatry

    Critical psychiatry today

    OnwardsÉ

    Chapter Two: Is there really an ‘epidemic’ of mental disorder?

    ‘The burden of brain disorders’

    Counting the costs

    Burden today

    From ‘mental’ disorders to ‘brain disorders’

    So is there an ‘epidemic’?

    Chapter Three: Is it all the fault of neoliberal capitalism?

    Our unhappy present

    The factory of unhappiness

    Social capital

    Loneliness

    Stress

    So is it all the fault of neoliberal capitalism?

    Chapter Four: If mental disorders exist, how shall we know them?

    Diagnosis as a social phenomenon

    Solution One: Define the phenotype

    Solution Two: Find the biomarker

    Solution Three: Straight to the brain

    Solution Four: Beyond diagnosis

    From diagnosis to formulation

    Chapter Five: Are mental disorders ‘brain disorders’?

    Proven by psychopharmaceuticals?

    Discovered in the genes?

    Visible in the brain images?

    So are mental disorders brain disorders?

    Chapter Six: Does psychopharmacology have a future?

    How did we get here?

    The drugs don’t do nothing, but

    The pipeline is empty!

    Beyond psychopharmacology?

    Chapter Seven: Who needs global mental health?

    Grand challenge: no health without mental health?

    The debate

    Beyond the conflict?

    All our futures?

    Chapter Eight: Experts by experience?

    Mental patient movements

    From ‘on our own’ to ‘nothing about us without us’

    The politics of recovery

    A new epistemology of mental distress

    Have we moved beyond the monologue?

    Chapter Nine: Is another psychiatry possible?

    Manifestoes for the future

    Seven answers to seven hard questions

    Another psychiatry, another biopolitics

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