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Psychiatric Hegemony

A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness

By: Bruce M. Z. Cohen

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Psychiatric Hegemony

A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness

By: Bruce M. Z. Cohen

This book offers a comprehensive Marxist critique of the business of mental health, demonstrating how the prerogatives of neoliberal capitalism for productive, self-governing citizens have allowed the discourse on mental illness to expand beyond the psychiatric institution into many previously untouched areas of public and private life including the home, school and the workplace. Through historical and contemporary analysis of psy-professional knowledge-claims and practices, Bruce Cohen shows how the extension of psychiatric authority can only be fully comprehended through the systematic theorising of power relations within capitalist society. From schizophrenia and hysteria to Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder, from spinning chairs and lobotomies to shock treatment and antidepressants, from the incarceration of working class women in the nineteenth century to the torture of prisoners of the ‘war on terror’ in the twenty-first, Psychiatric Hegemony is an uncompromising account of mental health ideology in neoliberal society.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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1349689793

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Mental Health User Narratives

New Perspectives on Illness and Recovery

By: Bruce M.Z. Cohen

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Mental Health User Narratives

New Perspectives on Illness and Recovery

By: Bruce M.Z. Cohen

Following extensive research in the UK, Bruce Cohen allows mental health users to tell their own stories (or 'narratives') of illness and recovery. Institutional and home treatment care is covered alongside controversial self-coping techniques such as drug-taking, spiritualism, alternative healing, sleep and watching television.

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Springer

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A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness

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Mental Health User Narratives

New Perspectives on Illness and Recovery

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New Perspectives on Illness and Recovery

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Being Cultural

By: Bruce M. Z. Cohen

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Being Cultural

By: Bruce M. Z. Cohen

BEING CULTURAL is an ambitious collection of original readings which introduces students to key theory and key issues within cultural studies and popular culture. Bringing together established writers such as Andy Bennett, Douglas Kellner, Chris Rojek, Barry Smart and John Storey with academics researching cultural texts in new and innovative ways, the book challenges our common-sense notions of 'culture', placing debates centrally within the power dynamics and dominant meaning-making of capitalist society. In understanding the production and consumption of such texts, the book outlines theoretical discussion from the Frankfurt School, British Cultural Studies, Semiotics, Subcultural theory, and Postmodernism, as well as investigating special topics such as digital media, sport, advertising, social networking sites, celebrity, video games, the body, cinema, reality TV, and issues of gender and ethnicity. With a total of twenty-five chapters presented in a user-friendly style -- including chapter summaries and suggestions for further reading from the authors -- this is an essential text for any student new to the subject.

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1442547693

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