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Critical perspectives on mental health
- Authors:
- COPPOCK Vicki, HOPTON John
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 216p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Seeks to explore and evaluate the claims of mainstream mental health ideologies and to establish what implications they critiques of these perspectives have for practice. Looks critically at the social, political and intellectual developments which have shaped psychiatric practice and the delivery of mental health services. By evaluating the impact on psychiatric thought of the social and political movements of the 1960's and 1970's, such as anti racism , anti psychiatry and radical feminism, the authors argue that these movements led to challenges to the legitimacy of psychiatry.