Psychiatric hegemony : a Marxist theory of mental illness /: a Marxist theory of mental illness. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Bruce M.Z. Cohen.
• Authors: Cohen, Bruce M. Z, 1968-
• Contents: Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Abbreviations; List of Figures and Tables; 1: Introduction: Thinking Critically About Mental Illness; Critical Scholarship on Mental Illness; Deconstructing the "Science" of Psychiatry; The Urgency for Marxist Theory; Summary; Bibliography; 2: Marxist Theory and Mental Illness: A Critique of Political Economy; Historical Materialism; Marxism, Medicine, and Mental Health; Industrialisation and the Mad Doctors; Biological Theory and Physical Treatments; The Drugs "Revolution"; Summary; Bibliography. 3: Psychiatric Hegemony: Mental Illness in Neoliberal Society Hegemony, Ideology, and Professional Power; The "Public Language" of the DSM-III; The Rise of Neoliberalism and Hegemonic Psychiatry; Bio-Power, Governance, and Psychiatric Hegemony; Summary; Bibliography; 4: Work: Enforcing Compliance; Moral Treatment and the Work Ethic; The "Humanisation" of Work; Case Study: Social Anxiety Disorder; Summary; Bibliography; 5: Youth: Medicalising Deviance; The Social Construction of Childhood; "Intelligence" Testing; The Rise of the Risky Kid. Education Factories and the Surveillance of the Future Workforce Case Study: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder; Summary; Bibliography; 6: Women: Reproducing Patriarchal Relations; The Division of Labour, Gender Roles, and the Rise of Biological Theory; Deviant Women and Physical "Treatments"; Neoliberalism and "Feminising" the DSM; Case Studies: Hysteria and Borderline Personality Disorder; Summary; Bibliography; 7: Resistance: Pathologising Dissent; Biomedicine and Psychiatry's War on Race; The Final Psychiatric Solution. Colonial Resistance and Psychiatry's "Civilising" Principle The Culture of Fear and the War without End; Summary; Bibliography; 8: Conclusion: Challenging the Psychiatric Hegemon; Towards Abolition; Challenging the Apologists; Bibliography; Appendix A: Methodology for Textual Analysis of the DSMs; Appendix B: Youth-Related Diagnostic Categories in the DSM, 1952-2013; Appendix C: "Feminised" Diagnostic Categories in the DSM, 1952-2013; Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (241 pages)
• Subjects: 616.89; Psychology; Social psychiatry; Mental illness; Mental Disorders; Community Psychiatry; Communism; Psychological Theory; Mental illness; Social psychiatry; Social Science -- Disease & Health Issues; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Political Science -- History & Theory; Medical -- Psychiatry -- General; Psychology -- Psychopathology -- General; Medical sociology; Social issues & processes; Political science & theory; Psychiatry; Abnormal psychology; Psychology, clinical; Social medicine; Political theory; Psychiatry; Psychology, Pathological; Psychology -- Clinical Psychology; Clinical psychology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137460516
• Related ISBNs: 9781137460509
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