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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
A note on terminology
1 The crisis in mental health
Introduction
Capitalism and mental distress
A Marxist framework for understanding mental health
A materialist approach
A historical approach
A dialectical approach
Structure of the book
2 All in the brain?
Models of madness
Psychiatry’s horrible histories
Psychiatry under the Nazis
From the asylum to DSM-5
DSM: the medicalisation of everyday life
Where now for the medical model of mental health?
3 “Neuroses are social diseases”: Marxism and psychoanalysis
Introduction
Freud: the unconscious and sexuality
The unconscious
Sexuality
Freud and the Bolsheviks
Germany: the lost revolution
Jacques Lacan: France’s psychoanalytic revolution
Concluding comments
4 “Mad to be normal”: the politics of anti-psychiatry
The Divided Self
From Self and Others to The Politics of Experience
Assessing Laing
Psychopolitics
A “Sedgwickian” mental health politics?
Concluding comments
5 “Bad things happen to you and drive you crazy”: challenges to psychiatric hegemony
Introduction
Challenging the dominant paradigm
Trauma
Dissociation
Attachment theory
Assessing the new paradigm
The mental health service user movement: “nothing about us without us”
The politics of mental health: tensions and solidarities
6 Taking control: alienation and mental health
Alienation and mental distress
What is to be done?
Conclusion: taking control
Bibliography
Notes
Index
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