Psychiatric Hegemony A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness
Authors: Bruce M. Z. Cohen
Emphasizes the proliferation of psychiatric labels, often with little science behind them, and the explosive parallel growth in the numbers of people who have been given psychiatric diagnoses
Challenges the status quo of what ‘mental illness’ appears to be and the ‘needs’ that the mental health system appear to serve
Offers a return to critical theory in which the available research evidence is framed within the structures and processes of late capitalism
Profiles the decline of the social state and an increased focus on the individual from the 1980s onwards
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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