Critical Psychiatry Public
Created by Cheryl
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Profession Without Reason by Bruce E. Levine
5 stars
There is today a crisis in psychiatry. Even the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health has said: …
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Madness in Civilization by Andrew SCULL
The loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the commonsense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the …
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The Divided Self by R. D. Laing
In The Divided Self (1960), Laing contrasted the experience of the "ontologically secure" person with that of a person who …
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Storming Bedlam by Sasha Warren
5 stars
In a radical rereading of the history, theory, and practice of psychiatry, Storming Bedlam emphasizes the utopian origins of …
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The Language of Madness by David Graham Cooper
"I am not saying that there is a radical need to go mad but that madness is one desperate expression …
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Madness and civilization by Michel Foucault
5 stars
Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 – from the late Middle Ages, …
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Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker
In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the …
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Mad in America by Robert Whitaker
In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker reveals an astounding truth: Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse …
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NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman
4 stars
What is autism? A lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? …
