Psychiatric Hegemony A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness /

• Main Author: Cohen, Bruce M. Z. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Political theory.; Psychiatry.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Social medicine.; Clinical psychology.; Psychology, Pathological.; Clinical Psychology.; Medical Sociology.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Political Theory.; Psychopathology.

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 untou...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Thinking Critically about Mental Illness
• Chapter 2 Marxist Theory and Mental Illness: A Critique of Political Economy
• Chapter 3 Psychiatric Hegemony: Mental illness in Neoliberal Society
• Chapter 4 Work: Enforcing Compliance
• Chapter 5 Youth: Medicalising Deviance
• Chapter 6 Women: Reproducing Patriarchal Relations
• Chapter 7 Resistance: Pathologising Dissent
• Chapter 8 Conclusion: Challenging the Psychiatric Hegemon
• Chapter Appendix 1: Methodology for Textual Analysis of the DSMs
• Chapter Appendix 2: Youth-Related Diagnostic Categories in the DSM, 1952–2013
• Chapter Appendix 3: ‘Feminised’ Diagnostic Categories in the DSM, 1952–2013.