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A scholarly critique of the treatment of children, government policy and the use of anti-depressants.
List of contents
Part One: The lunatics have taken over the asylum Mental health policy: a suitable case for treatment Peter Beresford and Suzy Croft, Integrating critical psychiatry into psychiatric training Duncan Double; Policing happiness Mark Rapley; Part Two: Risk and dangerousness What people need to know about the drug treatment of children Peter Breggin; The SSRI suicides David Healey; 'I've never said 'no' to anything in my life': helping people with learning disabilities who experience psychological problems Biza Stenfert Kroese and Guy Holmes; Coming off neuroleptics Peter Lehmann; Part Three: Rights ... and wrongs Surviving social inclusion Peter Campbell; When 'No' means 'Yes': informed consent themes with children and teenagers Steve Baldwin; Controlled bodies, controlled eating: the treatment of eating disorders Vivien J Lewis and Sara Cureton; Relatives and carers Olive Bucknall and Guy Holmes; Part Four: An end to madness Survivor research Vivien Lindow; This is therapy: a person-centred critique of the contemporary psychiatric system Pete Sanders and Keith Tudor; The future approach for community mental health Fran Silvestri and Susan Hallwright; Developing a survivor discourse to replace the 'psychopathology' of breakdown and crisis Jan Wallcraft and John Michaelson
About the author
Craig Newnes is editor of The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy (formerly Changes), and a comissioning editor and author for the PCCS Books Critical Psychology series. Prior to his retirement he was Director of Psychological Therapies for Shropshire. He has a life time commitment to the NHS and is an outspoken critic of the hypocrisy, self interest, confusion and downright lies which characterise so much of the practise of psychiatry and psychology. He believes that unhappiness is a form of heresy and most of the misery for which people seek help is only amenable to alleviation through changes in their material lives. Guy Holmes works in the NHS as a clinical psychologist in Shropshire. He has published over 40 academic articles in areas as diverse as: the medicalisation of distress; psychiatric medication; patients' councils; service users' experiences of and views on mental health services; sexual abuse of males; community psychology; and various aspects of groupwork. Cailzie Dunn is also a clinical psychologist working in Shropshire (UK). She co-ran an Alternatives to Psychiatry course in Shropshire in 1997. She is particularly interested in talking to people about experiences they have had which have been elsewhere diagnosed as psychotic symptoms, with the aim of trying to find an explanation which is more meaningful and helpful to the person.
Summary
Companion volume to 'This is Madness'. A compassionate and scholarly critique of the treatment of children, government policy, use of anti-depressants and other areas fundamental to mental health services. Contains views of service users and professionals.
