Based on extensive research, this book is a fundamental critique of psychiatry that examines the foundations of psychiatry, refutes its basic tenets, and traces

This book challenges the perception of the psychiatric chart as a neutral and objective text. The chapters included in this book coalesce to reveal the psychiat

This exciting collection of essays explores the complex area of madness and performance. The book spans from the 18th century to the present and unearths the ov

Examines the past, present and possible future of a mental health system based around a bio-genetic model of madness.

This edited volume is an anthology of institutional ethnography (IE) inquiries into psychiatry—the first ever to be written. It focuses on a large variety of