Critical Psychiatry

1. Critical Psychiatry: Challenging the Biomedical Dominance of Psychiatry
D. B. Double

Part I. Anti-psychiatry and Critical Psychiatry in Retrospect

2. Historical Perspectives on Anti-psychiatry
D. B. Double

3. From Anti-psychiatry to Critical Psychiatry
John M. Heaton

4. Transcultural Mental Health Care: The Challenge to Positivist Psychiatry
David Ingleby

Part II. The Prospect of Critical Psychiatry

5. The Limits of Biomedical Models of Distress
Lucy Johnstone

6. Understanding Psychiatry’s Resistance to Change
Terry Lynch

7. The Politics of Psychiatric Drug Treatment
Joanna Moncrieff

8. British Mental Health Social Work and the Psychosocial Approach in Context
Shulamit Ramon

9. Democracy, Citizenship and the Radical Possibilities of Postpsychiatry
Pat Bracken, Philip Thomas

10. The Biopsychological Approach in Psychiatry: The Meyerian Legacy
D. B. Double

11. Critical Child Psychiatry
Sami Timimi

12. Critical Psychiatry and Conflict: Renewing Mental Health Practice
D. B. Double

Keywords: Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Work, Psychopathology, Self and Identity, Psychiatry