Critical psychiatry / D.B. Double --;Historical perspectives on anti-psychiatry / D.B. Double --;From anti-psychiatry to critical psychiatry / John M. Heaton --;Transcultural mental health care / David Ingleby --;The limits of biomedical models of distress / Lucy Johnstone --;Understanding psychiatry's resistance to change / Terry Lynch --;The politics of psychiatric drug treatment / Joanna Moncrieff --;British mental health social work and the psychosocial approach in context / Shulamit Ramon --;Democracy, citizenship and the radical possibilities of postpsychiatry / Pat Bracken & Philip Thomas --;The biopsychological approach in psychiatry / D.B. Double --;Critical child psychiatry / Sami Timimi --;Critical psychiatry and conflict / D.B. Double.
Psychiatry is increasingly dominated by the reductionist claim that mental illness is caused by neurobiological abnormalities. Critical psychiatry disagrees with this and proposes a more ethical foundation for practice. This book describes an original framework for renewing mental health services in alliance with people with mental health problems.