Liberatory Psychiatry: Philosophy, Politics and Mental Health
Author(s): Carl I. Cohen (Editor), Sami Timimi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: April 24, 2008
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 306 pages
ISBN-10: 0521689813
ISBN-13: 9780521689816
Book Description
Psychiatry can help free persons from social, physical and psychological oppression, and it can assist persons to lead free self-directed lives. And, because social realities impact on mental well-being, psychiatry has a critical role to play in social struggles that further liberation. These are the basic foundations of liberatory psychiatry. In recent years, dramatic transformations in social and political structures worldwide have increased the problems of domination, alienation, consumerism, class, gender, religion, race and ethnicity. Confronting the psychological impact of these changes, and exploring new ideas to help develop the liberatory potential of psychiatry, this book should be read by mental health practitioners from the widest range of disciplines and those interested in social theory and political science.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“This is a fascinating and provocative book. It challenges the idea of the medical model of psychiatry and raises some interesting questions about the practice of modern psychiatry.” –Doody’s Review Service
“The book ranges through philosophy, science, historical perspectives on modernism and postmodernism, Dilthey’s concept of hermeneutics, and the unconscious as a factor in subjugation as well as the topics of liberations, economics, and multiculturalism….[I am] sympathetic to [this book’s] ideals and admire its breath and sophistication.” –Contemporary Psychology
“An excellent series of essays which I enjoyed reading and will pass on to my students.” –Metapsychology
Book Description
Confronts the psychological impact of social changes, and explores the liberatory potential of psychiatry.
About the Author
Carl I. Cohen is a Professor of Psychiatry at SUNY Health Science Center in Brooklyn. He is also Director of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Alzheimer’s Disease Assistance Center.
Sami Timimi is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in the National Health Service in Lincolnshire, UK and a Visiting Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Lincoln University.
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