Postpsychiatry : mental health in a postmodern world / Patrick Bracken and Philip Thomas.
Material type: TextSeries: International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry | International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatryPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780198526094 (pbk.) :
- 0198526091 (pbk.) :
- 616.89001 BRA
- RC437.5 .B87 2005
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Values, evidence, conflict-- 2. What counts as evidene?-- 3. The battle for acceptance: defining the relationship between medicine and the world of madness and distress--4. Foregrounding contexts: what kinds of understanding are appropriate in the world of mental illness?--5. Mind, language and meaning-- 6. Ethics before technology: is treatment the best way to think about mental health work?-- 7. Narrative and the ethics of representation-- 8. Meaning and recovery-- 9. Citizenship and the politics of identity--10. Are you local? Responding to the challenge of globalisation in mental health.
For most of us the words madness and psychosis conjure up fear and images of violence. Using short stories, the authors consider complex philosphical issues from a fresh perspective. The current debates about mental health policy and practice are placed into their historical and cultural contexts.