Cultures of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in Postwar Britain and the Netherlands

Cultures of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in Postwar Britain and the Netherlands
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Publisher : Rodopi
Total Pages : 344
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ISBN-10 : 9042007753
ISBN-13 : 9789042007758
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Download or read book Cultures of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in Postwar Britain and the Netherlands written by and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anti-psychiatry' is a movement more sloganized than analysed. Until now it has been associated in the English-speaking world primarily with R.D. Laing and a coterie of his associates, and a radical critique not just of psychiatric hospitalization but of the very premises of psychiatry itself and the basic institutions of society, especially the family. But are these notions accurate, or rather distorted images, created by Laing himself or by the media? In this book, which has emerged out of an Anglo-Dutch conference held in June 1997, the realities of critical psychiatry are explored, using comparisons and contrasts between the British and the Dutch experiences as a probe. There were, it turns out, various distinct anti-psychiatries - indeed, hardly anybody actually used that label about themselves - and they played a role in the reform no less than the rejection of regular psychiatry.


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