Synopsis
The
book features a radical perspective on psychiatry and the “mental
health system” informed by an antipsychiatry perspective and
anti-oppression analysis. In the Introduction, antipsychiatry is defined
as active and radical resistance to psychiatry - antipsychiatry is not
an intellectual or “academic exercise.” The book deconstructs psychiatry
as a social control system.. As social control, psychiatry is
specifically deconstructed as inherently coercive and based on force,
fear and fraud. Psychiatry’s uses of force --involuntary committal,
forced drugging, electroshock, physical restraints—are
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