Liberatory Psychiatry: Philosophy, Politics

Psychiatry can help free persons from social, physical and psychological oppression, and it can assist persons to lead free self-directed lives. And, because social realities impact on mental well-being, psychiatry has a critical role to play in social struggles that further liberation. These are the basic foundations of liberatory psychiatry. In recent years, dramatic transformations in social and political structures worldwide have increased the problems of domination, alienation, consumerism, class, gender, religion, race and ethnicity. Confronting the psychological impact of these changes, and exploring new ideas to help develop the liberatory potential of psychiatry, this book should be read by mental health practitioners from the widest range of disciplines and those interested in social theory and political science.

Contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Working towards a liberatory psychiatry? Radicalizing the science of human psychology and behavior	p. 9
Power, freedom, and mental health: a postpsychiatry perspective	p. 35
Challenging risk: a critique of defensive practice	p. 55
Democracy in psychiatry: or why psychiatry needs a new constitution	p. 73
German critical psychology as emancipatory psychology	p. 89
Psychopolitical validity in the helping professions: applications to research, interventions, case conceptualization, and therapy	p. 105
Class exploitation and psychiatric disorders: from status syndrome to capitalist syndrome	p. 131
Ecological, individual, ecological? Moving public health psychiatry into a new era	p. 147
Children's mental health and the global market: an ecological analysis	p. 163
Postcolonial psychiatry: the Empire strikes back? Or, the untapped promise of multiculturalism	p. 183
A new psychiatry for a new world: postcolonialism, postmodernism, and the integration of premodern thought into psychiatry	p. 205
Neoliberalism and biopsychiatry: a marriage of convenience	p. 235
Psychoanalysis and social change: the Latin American experience	p. 257
A new psychiatry?	p. 275
Index	p. 286
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