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Title Psychiatry disrupted : theorizing resistance and crafting the (r)evolution / edited by Bonnie Burstow, Brenda A. LeFrançois, and Shaindl Diamond.

Publication Info. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.

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Description xix, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Impassioned praxis -- Becoming perpetrator -- The withering away of psychiatry -- Psychology politics resistance -- From subservience to resistance -- Developing partnerships to resist psychiatry within academia -- "We do not want to be split up from our family" -- Disability, divisions, definitions, and disabilism -- Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities -- Deeply engaged relationships -- Trans jeoparty/trans resistance -- Take it public -- Feminist resistance against the medicalization of humanity -- Sly normality.
Summary Introducing readers to the arguments and rationale for opposing psychiatry, this book combines perspectives from anti-psychiatry and critical psychiatry activism, mad activism, antiracist, critical, and radical disability studies, as well as feminist, Marxist, and anarchist thought.
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Subject Antipsychiatry.
Antipsychiatry.
Psychiatry -- Social aspects.
Psychiatry -- Social aspects.
Psychiatry.
Psychiatry -- Political aspects.
Psychiatry -- Political aspects.
Psychiatry -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Psychiatry -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Burstow, Bonnie, 1945- editor.
LeFrançois, Brenda A., 1968- editor.
Diamond, Shaindl, 1980- editor.
Other Form: Original (OCoLC)870916795
ISBN 9780773543294 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0773543295 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780773543300 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0773543309 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780773590304 (ePDF)
9780773590311 (ePUB)
0773590307
9780773590304
0773590315 (electronic book)
9780773590311