PsychoPolitics
$38.39
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
20 August 2022
Summary
‘A powerful and impassioned defence of psychiatry, urging the Left to confront the harsh realities of mental illness’ - William Davis, author of The Happiness Industry
A new edition of one of the most significant and credible critiques of the anti-psychiatry movement.
As relevant today as it was when first published in 1982, the book changed the conversation on mental health and illness, demanding that we assess its relationship to the wider decay of social institutio…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780745347226 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0745347223 |
| Author: | Peter Sedgwick, Tad Tietze |
| Publisher: | Pluto Press |
| Imprint: | Pluto Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 20 August 2022 |
| Weight: | 321g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 21mm |
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Critics Review
‘One of the most prolific, versatile and scholarly of this country’s socialist writers’ ‘The Times’
‘A powerful and impassioned defence of psychiatry, urging the Left to confront the harsh realities of mental illness’
– William Davies, author of ‘The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being’‘One of the most prolific, versatile and scholarly of this country’s socialist writers’
– ‘The Times’‘A unique voice, politically committed but always balanced, urgent but always laced with humour’
– ‘New Statesman’About The Author
Peter Sedgwick
Peter Sedgwick (1934-1983) was a Marxist, a trained psychologist and the translator of the revolutionary Victor Serge. His classic book PsychoPolitics is considered to be his major achievement, lauded by psychiatrists, social workers and philosophers alike.
Tad Tietze is a psychiatrist who lives in Sydney, Australia. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, Modern Age, Overland, Historical Materialism, Australasian Psychiatry and Critical and Radical Social Work.
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