Psychiatry Disrupted: Theorizing Resistance and Crafting the (R)Evolution

by Brenda A. LeFrançois, Shaindl Diamond, Bonnie Burstow

Book Overview

There is growing international resistance to the oppressiveness of psychiatry. While previous studies have critiqued psychiatry, Psychiatry Disrupted goes beyond theorizing what is wrong with it to theorizing how we might stop it. Introducing readers to the arguments and rationale for opposing psychiatry, the book combines perspectives from anti-psychiatry and critical psychiatry activism, mad activism, antiracist, critical, and radical disability...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773543309
• ISBN13: 9780773543300
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"