Contesting Psychiatry: Social Movements in Mental Health

By Nick Crossley

This book, focusing largely on the UK, examines the history of resistance to psychiatry between 1950 and 2000. Building on the author's extensive research the book provides an empirical account and exploration of the key social movements and movement organisations who have contested psychiatry.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041535417X
• ISBN13: 9780415354172
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.2" x 6.3"