Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus: Repression, Transformation and Assistance

By Jean Daniel Jacob and Dave Holmes

Book Overview

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, while theorizing their workings in creative and imaginative ways.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138367052
• ISBN13: 9781138367050
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"