Power And The Psychiatric Apparatus: Repression, Transformation And Assistance

A comprehensive exploration of contested psychiatric practices in healthcare settings, this interdisciplinary volume brings together recent scholarship from the US, Canada, the UK, Europe and Australia, to provide a rich array of theoretical tools with which to engage with questions related to psychiatric power, discipline and control, whilst theorising their workings in creative and imaginative ways.

• • Author: Professor Dave Holmes, Dr Amélie Perron, Asst Prof Jean Daniel Jacob
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Apr 11, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 352 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1472417313
• • ISBN-13: 9781472417312