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...