The Politics Of Madness

Author : Hope Landrine
Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780820415710
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Madness written by Hope Landrine and published by Peter Lang Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 1992 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Madness presents the case that psychiatric disorders maintain the inequalities found in today's stratified societies. Landrine argues that the stereotypes of women, the poor, and minorities affect psychiatric diagnoses, and support this with several shocking, empirical investigations. In one study, clinicians diagnosed descriptions of poor people as schizophrenia; poor black men as antisocial personality disorder; and women as suffering from depression. This scholarly, interdisciplinary work is the first to present hard evidence for the view that psychiatric disorders are political categories that maintain social order.

Author : Joseph Melling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134417098
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Madness written by Joseph Melling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery and treatment of insanity remains one of the most debated and discussed issues in social history. Focusing on the second half of the nineteenth century, The Politics of Madness provides a new perspective on this important topic, based on research drawn from both local and national material. Within a social and cultural history of the English political and class order, it presents a fresh appraisal of the significance of the asylum in the decades following the creation of a national asylum system in 1845. Arguing that the new asylums provided a meeting place for different social interests and aspirations, the text asserts that this then marked a transition in provincial power relations from the landed interests to the new coalition of professional, commercial and populist groups, which gained control of the public asylums at the end of the period surveyed.

Author : Spandler, Helen
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447314573
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madness, Distress and the Politics of Disablement written by Spandler, Helen and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the relationship between madness, distress and disability, bringing together leading scholars and activists from Europe, North America, Australia and India.

Author : Theodore Jun Yoo
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520289307
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It's Madness written by Theodore Jun Yoo and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's Madness examines Korea's critical years under Japanese colonialism when mental health first became defined as a medical and social problem. As in most Asian countries, severe social ostracism, shame, and fear of jeopardizing marriage prospects drove most Korean families to conceal the mentally ill behind closed doors. This book explores the impact of Chinese traditional medicine and its holistic approach to treating mental disorders, the resilience of folk illnesses as explanations for inappropriate and dangerous behaviors, the emergence of clinical psychiatry as a discipline, and the competing models of care under the Japanese colonial authorities and Western missionary doctors. It also analyzes interpretations of culture-bound emotional states that Koreans have viewed as specific to their interpersonal relationships, social experiences, local contexts, and the new medical discourses that the Korean press adopted to reshape social understandings of mental illness. Drawing upon unpublished archival as well as printed sources, this is the first study to examine the ways in which "madness" has been understood, classified, and treated in traditional Korea and the role of science in pathologizing and redefining mental illness under Japanese colonial rule"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Susan J. Hubert
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874137439
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Questions of Power written by Susan J. Hubert and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Questions of Power: The Politics of Women's Madness Narratives explores the ways in which women have used autobiographical writing in response to psychiatric symptoms and treatment. By addressing health and healing from the patient's perspective, the study raises questions about psychiatric practice and mental health policy. The ultimate thesis is that autobiographies by women psychiatric patients can expose many of the problems in psychiatric treatment and indicate directions for change."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Dennis R. Fox
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761952114
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Psychology written by Dennis R. Fox and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-05-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This broad-ranging introduction to the diverse strands of critical psychology explores the history, practice and values of psychology, scrutinises a wide range of sub-disciplines, and sets out the major theoretical frameworks.

Author : Amber Murrey
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780745337579
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Certain Amount of Madness written by Amber Murrey and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating and critiquing the life of one of Africa's most important anti-imperialist leaders

Author : James Bowman
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1594032874
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media Madness written by James Bowman and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2009-04-26 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Bowman provides a scintillating and fast-paced anatomy of the mainstream media self-generated demise. The Mind of the Media looks behind the headlines to examine mainstream media's governing myths. Writing with acerbic wit, Bowman shows how the mainstream media's embrace of a spurious notion of objectivity, combined with its addiction to scandal, and an unshakable conviction of its own moral superiority have done irreparable damage to the media's public authority.

Author : Sadeq Rahimi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317555511
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meaning, Madness and Political Subjectivity written by Sadeq Rahimi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between subjective experience and the cultural, political and historical paradigms in which the individual is embedded. Providing a deep analysis of three compelling case studies of schizophrenia in Turkey, the book considers the ways in which private experience is shaped by collective structures, offering insights into issues surrounding religion, national and ethnic identity and tensions, modernity and tradition, madness, gender and individuality. Chapters draw from cultural psychiatry, medical anthropology, and political theory to produce a model for understanding the inseparability of private experience and collective processes. The book offers those studying political theory a way for conceptualizing the subjective within the political; it offers mental health clinicians and researchers a model for including political and historical realities in their psychological assessments and treatments; and it provides anthropologists with a model for theorizing culture in which psychological experience and political facts become understandable and explainable in terms of, rather than despite each other. Meaning, Madness, and Political Subjectivity provides an original interpretative methodology for analysing culture and psychosis, offering compelling evidence that not only "normal" human experiences, but also extremely "abnormal" experiences such as psychosis are anchored in and shaped by local cultural and political realities.

Author : Néré St-Amand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Madness written by Néré St-Amand and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: