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Author:

Crossley, Nick, 1968-

Title:

Contesting psychiatry : social movements in mental health / Nick Crossley.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

229 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Antipsychiatry--History.--Great Britain--History.
Mental health services--Great Britain--History.
Social psychiatry--Great Britain--History.
Social movements--Great Britain--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-220) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : researching resistance -- Social movements, SMOs and fields of contention -- A value-added model of mobilisation -- Contextualising contention : a potted history of the mental health field -- Mental hygiene and early protests : 1930-60 -- Anti-psychiatry and 'the Sixties' -- Parents, people and a radical change of MIND -- A union of mental patients -- Networks, survivors and international connections -- Consolidation and backlash.

Series:

Critical studies in health and society

ISBN:

9780415354165 (hbk.)
0415354161 (hbk.)
9780415354172 (pbk.)
041535417X (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)60767033

LCCN:

2005018080

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)