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1	The anti-psychiatric perspective on the "family, schizophrenia, and society" Martin, Robert Earl January 1978 (has links) This thesis has investigated the nature of the family, so-called "schizophrenia", and society as viewed by the major anti-psychiatric theorists and radical psychologists/psychiatrists. Particular emphasis was placed on the works of R. D. Laing, D. G. Cooper, and M. Schatzman. The family was investigated as the primary tool of induction of the individual into socially "acceptable" (i.e. conformist) roles via abdication of self, as well as the basic context in which particular individuals are labeled as "mad". The diagnostic category of "schizophrenia" was studied as a false abstraction applied to some individuals by others in a particular social situation in which the diagnosed individual's behavior has been removed from its social context and viewed wrongly as the result of a pathological process. Society was investigated as the meta-context within which these phenomena occur and their appearance of irrationality is to be understood. Antipsychiatry. Schizophrenia. Families.
2	The killing of a woman: A qualitative and forensic investigation. Wall, Naomi, January 2006 (has links) Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2006. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 44-06, page: 2506.
3	Voyage à travers l'antipsychiatrie et la santé mentale : des discours organisateurs du sujet à l'épreuve de la folie et de la crise / A journey through antipsychiatry and mental health : organising subject discourses in front of madness and crisis Veit, Camille 05 July 2016 (has links) À plusieurs égards, l’antipsychiatrie et les dispositifs contemporains de santé mentale traitent la folie de manières distinctes, organisant son soin à travers les faits et la langue dans des discours voyageant entre libération, transformation et désaliénation pour l’un ; réadaptation et développement personnel pour l’autre. Tous deux convoitent l’objet santé mentale et en fournissent des modèles respectivement crisophile et crisophobe. Leurs effets sur le sujet et l’institution diffèrent irrémédiablement. Le discours antipsychiatrique irrigué de contre-culture produit de la crise en la guidant. La figure de l’autre reste énigmatique, d’aucuns cherchant à le rejoindre en ce lieu sacré du Phantastica dans l’expérience des drogues. Le fou en place de transcendant est éclairé par une vérité acquise au terme du voyage coûteux de la métanoïa, déconstruction-reconstruction aux confins de l’espace et du temps. Au même moment – soit dans ce passage entre modernité et postmodernité – se posent les jalons d’un paradigme nouveau, celui d’une santé mentale auto-produite mue par le droit de l’usager au bien-être et le refus du joug d’un maître. L’objet santé mentale circule dans une communauté de signes promotrice du modèle d’un self made man rétabli. Les effets sur le sujet et l’organisation du soin ne manquent pas de se faire entendre à travers l’universalisation du champ d’une folie déstigmatisée relayée par la figure du semblable. Il est pourtant un espace qui ne cesse d’achopper. À l’occasion contenue et saisie, la crise fait trou dans les discours organisateurs et en éclaire les points aveugles. Si la crise, par son ascendance au réel, a indéniablement une fonction pour le sujet dès lors qu’elle quitte les rets d’un modèle, elle est aussi le lieu d’un enseignement pour l’institution et en éclaire la fonction possible : celle de l’élaboration d’un accueil occasionnant et mobilisant le désir et l’inédit. / From several perspectives, antipsychiatry and mental health services deal with madness differently. They conduct its care through discourses travelling between liberation, transformation ans disalienation for the first one; rehabilitation and personal development for the other. Both of them covet mental health as something sacred and share their model concerning it. But antipsychiatry is decidedly crisophile whereas mental health is crisophobe a priori. These two models produce different effects on the subject as well as the institution. The antipsychiatric discourse, irrigated by counter-culture, produces crisis by guiding it. The figure of the Other remains enigmatic, many would reach it into this sacred place of Phantastica, through drug experiences. In the transcendent field, madman is enlighted by the truth he found as a result of the costly journey of metanoïa, at the boundaries of space and time. At the same time, this period between modernity and postmodernity paves the way of a very new paradigm which we will refer to as self-produced mental health. This emerging ideal is driven by the user’s right to wellbeing and the refusal to be under a master yoke. Mental health looks like a codified object circulating in a signs community which promotes a recovered self-made man model. The effects on the subject and on care organisation can be heard across an universalisation of the field of a destigmatized madness. The figure of the same relieves the figure of the madman. But there is one area that can’t be seized. Contained and grabbed occasionally, the crisis makes a hole in organising discourses and thereby enlightens it blind spots. Through its close link with register of the real, the crisis has undeniably a function for the subject therefore it leaves the path traced by any model. This event also teaches the institution something about its possible function : to develop a welcome which mobilises desire and unhackneyed experience. Crise Antipsychiatrie Institution Crisis Antipsychiatry Institution
4	The Use of Discrediting Labels in the Maintenance of Socially Constructed Reality Church, Nathan 15 July 1977 (has links) Over the past two decades an increasing number of theorists and practitioners have called for a thorough rethinking of the underlying assumptions of the concept of rrental illness and the traditional psychiatric nodes of responding to mental disorders. The work of this group of writers has come to be referred to as the "antipsychiatry" literature. The insights of this perspective center largely about a rejection of those theories and methods of treatment that are based upon the medical model. Many writers point to the use of traditional psychiatric practice as an oppressive instrument of social control. While much of this perspective is directed toward the analysis of specifically sociological factors there have been few attempts by sociologists to provide focus for the claims that have been made. This paper proposes a synthetic sociological framework with the intention of providing sociological focus for the otherwise disparate insights found within this literature. A general model is constructed by incorporating aspects of the labeling perspective, the sociology of knowledge, and Marxian analysis. The model provides the analytical tools for investigation of the manner in which "mental illness" as a concept, and the phenemenon which it allegedly describes, are rooted in the nature of everyday life. The framework that is developed places particular emphasis upon the political dimensions . of everyday life. This dimension is especially useful in explicating the role of labeling as a device to discredit the claims of .people as they attempt to identify the oppressive aspects of .their social environment. The nature .of socialization within Western culture is analyzed in terms of the various factors which are instrumental in the mystification of consciousness and its relationship to "mental illness." The observation is made that the majority of the claims that are proffered by the "antipsychiatrists" are devoid of a firm empirical foundation in that they rely primarily upon findings from case studies and a series of loose inferences. An attempt is made to overcome this problem by mapping out the empirical points of departure for the model by developing a set of testable propositions and corollaries. It is concluded that a radical sociology of knowledge framework does provide a useful method of conceptualizing the "antipsychiatry" literature from a sociological perspective. The validity of the claims themselves, however, must wait until much more of the empirical evidence is in. It is pointed out that extreme caution be taken to avoid contentions to the effect that all mental disorders can be fruitfully Suggestions are made as to the likelihood that some diagnostic categories, more than others, may be subject to analysis by this model. It is implied that further research into the role of biopsychological factors will undoubtedly show the interactive effects of such factors with defective socialization and oppressive social relationships. Mental illness Sociology of knowledge Antipsychiatry Mental Disorders Social Psychology and Interaction Theory, Knowledge and Science
5	La Stratégie de la fuite. Folie et antipsychiatrie dans le roman de 1960 à 1980 / The Escape Strategy. Madness and Antipsychiatry in the Novel from 1960 to 1980 Weeber, Jeanne 04 June 2016 (has links) Au début des années soixante, le thème de la folie fait simultanément irruption dans les sciences sociales et dans la littérature. Les modalités discursives, les enjeux philosophiques et sociaux divergent autour de la question antipsychiatrique. Étude de littérature comparée, l'analyse d'un corpus de neuf romans écrits par des écrivains français (Marguerite Duras, Roland Topor), américains (Ken Kesey, Sylvia Plath), anglais (Jennifer Dawson), dominicain (Jean Rhys), néozélandais (Janet Frame), marocain (Tahar Ben Jelloun) et portugais (Antonio Lobo Antunès) permet une appréhension large et contextualisée des formes que revêt l'antipsychiatrie dans l'écriture romanesque. Ainsi, Faces in the Water de Janet Frame et The Ha-Ha de Jennifer Dawson (1961), One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest de Ken Kesey (1962), The Bell Jar de Sylvia Plath (1963), Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein de Marguerite Duras et Le Locataire chimérique de Roland Topor (1964), Wide Sargasso Sea de Jean Rhys (1966), Moha le fou, Moha le sage de Tahar Ben Jelloun (1978) et Conhecimento do Inferno d’Antonio Lobo Antunes (1980) sont analysés à la lumière des recherches psychiatriques (Szasz, Cooper, Laing...), sociologiques (Goffmann, Anderson...) et philosophiques (Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard...) de l'époque pour tracer les contours de ce que ce temps précis nomme "folie". Obsessions particulières et motifs traditionnels de la folie convergent au sein de ces œuvres en une poétique de la fugue, plus encore, en une esthétique de la fuite. / In the early sixties, the theme of madness suddenly became a prominent subject in both social sciences and litterature. Whether as discursive pratice or philosophical and social issue, there was considerable divergence in and around the anti-psychiatric mouvement. A comparative study of a body of litterature composed of nine novels by French, American, English, Dominican, New-zealander, Moroccan and Portughese writers allows a broad and contextualized comprehension of the various treatements of anti-psychiatry in contemporary litterature. Thus, Faces in the Water by Janet Frame and The Ha-Ha by Jennifer Dawson (1961), One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (1962), The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1963), Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein by Marguerite Duras and Le Locataire chimérique by Roland Topor (1964), Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (1966), Moha le fou, Moha le sage by Tahar Ben Jelloun (1978) and Conhecimento do Inferno by Antonio Lobo Antunes (1980) are analized from the point of view of psychiatry researches (Szasz, Cooper, Laing...) sociological (Goffmann, Anderson...) and philosophical reflection (Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard...) in order to trace the outline of what that historical moment called 'madness'. Punctual obsessions and traditional definitions converge in these works to create a poetic of runaway, moreover, an aesthetics of escape. Antipsychiatrie Folie Schizophrénie Paranoïa Internement Michel Foucault Marguerite Duras Tahar Ben Jelloun Antipsychiatry Madness Schizophrenia Paranoia Internment Michel Foucault Marguerite Duras Tahar Ben Jelloun
6	Governing Through Competency: Race, Pathologization, and the Limits of Mental Health Outreach Tam, Louise 29 November 2012 (has links) This thesis examines how cultural competency operates as a regime of governmentality. Inspired by Foucauldian genealogy, institutional ethnography, and Said’s concept of contrapuntality, this thesis problematizes the seamless production of racialized bodies in relation to mental disorder. I begin by elaborating a theoretical framework for interpreting race and madness as mutually constructed ordering practices. I then analyze what cultural competence produces and sustains in a position paper published by the Ontario Federation of Community Mental Health and Addiction Programs. I argue the Federation dismisses ongoing institutional violence—suggesting it is simply the perception, as opposed to the everyday reality, of discrimination that causes problems such as low educational attainment among youth of colour. To further support this claim, I deconstruct narratives of low self-esteem, maladaptive coping, depression, and denial of mental illness in the community needs assessments of two of the Federation’s member organizations: Hong Fook and Across Boundaries. construction of mental disorder racial governmentality immigrant women minority youth cultural competency cross-cultural mental health Brief Symptom Inventory community needs assessment Postcolonial Studies institutional ethnography Disability Studies race deviance depression self-esteem madness oppression as disease anti-racism health equity antipsychiatry feminist Foucauldian genealogy contrapuntal reading psychiatric survivors multicultural practice technologies of the self social organization of mental health 0631 0453 0703 0339 0385
7	Governing Through Competency: Race, Pathologization, and the Limits of Mental Health Outreach Tam, Louise 29 November 2012 (has links) This thesis examines how cultural competency operates as a regime of governmentality. Inspired by Foucauldian genealogy, institutional ethnography, and Said’s concept of contrapuntality, this thesis problematizes the seamless production of racialized bodies in relation to mental disorder. I begin by elaborating a theoretical framework for interpreting race and madness as mutually constructed ordering practices. I then analyze what cultural competence produces and sustains in a position paper published by the Ontario Federation of Community Mental Health and Addiction Programs. I argue the Federation dismisses ongoing institutional violence—suggesting it is simply the perception, as opposed to the everyday reality, of discrimination that causes problems such as low educational attainment among youth of colour. To further support this claim, I deconstruct narratives of low self-esteem, maladaptive coping, depression, and denial of mental illness in the community needs assessments of two of the Federation’s member organizations: Hong Fook and Across Boundaries. construction of mental disorder racial governmentality immigrant women minority youth cultural competency cross-cultural mental health Brief Symptom Inventory community needs assessment Postcolonial Studies institutional ethnography Disability Studies race deviance depression self-esteem madness oppression as disease anti-racism health equity antipsychiatry feminist Foucauldian genealogy contrapuntal reading psychiatric survivors multicultural practice technologies of the self social organization of mental health 0631 0453 0703 0339 0385
8	Particularly Responsible: Everyday Ethical Navigation, Concrete Relationships, and Systemic Oppression Chapman, Christopher Stephen 20 August 2012 (has links) In this dissertation, I articulate what I call a personal-is-political ethics, suggesting that the realm of human affairs long called ethics is inseparable from that which is today normatively called psychology. Further, I suggest that these names for this shared realm are situated in different discursive traditions which, therefore, provide different parameters for possible action and understanding. In my exploration of what it is to be human, I strategically centre ethical transgressions, particularly those that are mappable onto systemic forms of oppression. I explore personal-is-political enactments of sexism, ableism, racism, colonization, classism, ageism, and geopolitics, including situations in which several of these intersect with one another and those in which therapeutic, pedagogical, or parenting hierarchies also intersect with them. Without suggesting this is ‘the whole story,’ I closely read people’s narrations of ethical transgressions that they – that we – commit. I claim that such narrations shape our possibilities for harming others, for taking responsibility, and for intervening in others’ lives in an attempt to have them take responsibility (e.g., therapy with abuse perpetrators and critical pedagogy). I work to demonstrate the ethical and political importance of: the impossibility of exhaustive knowledge, the illimitable and contingent power relations that are ever-present and give shape to what we can know, and the ways our possibilities in life are constituted through particular contact with others. I explore ethical transgressions I have committed, interrogating these events in conversation with explorations of resonant situations in published texts, as well as with research conversations with friends about their ethical transgressions and how they make sense of them. I tentatively advocate for, and attempt to demonstrate, ways of governing ourselves when we are positioned ‘on top’ of social hierarchies – in order to align our responses and relationships more closely with radical political commitments. systemic oppression ethics performativity différance governmentality subjectification relationality taking responsibility power/knowledge accountability personal-is-political deconstruction narrative practice racism sexism ableism colonialism decolonization whiteness masculinity abuse harm invitational practice complicity reflexivity self-critique resonance pedagogy flows of becoming queer theory disability studies critical social work therapy power ethical narrative political rationality treatment violence mad studies antipsychiatry psychology gendered peer abuse abuse intervention abuse perpetration intentional states friendship auto-ethnography critical pedagogy An Ethics Inaccessible to Liberalism 0733 0626 0452 0740 0628 0422 0998 0340 0451 0622 0384
9	Particularly Responsible: Everyday Ethical Navigation, Concrete Relationships, and Systemic Oppression Chapman, Christopher Stephen 20 August 2012 (has links) In this dissertation, I articulate what I call a personal-is-political ethics, suggesting that the realm of human affairs long called ethics is inseparable from that which is today normatively called psychology. Further, I suggest that these names for this shared realm are situated in different discursive traditions which, therefore, provide different parameters for possible action and understanding. In my exploration of what it is to be human, I strategically centre ethical transgressions, particularly those that are mappable onto systemic forms of oppression. I explore personal-is-political enactments of sexism, ableism, racism, colonization, classism, ageism, and geopolitics, including situations in which several of these intersect with one another and those in which therapeutic, pedagogical, or parenting hierarchies also intersect with them. Without suggesting this is ‘the whole story,’ I closely read people’s narrations of ethical transgressions that they – that we – commit. I claim that such narrations shape our possibilities for harming others, for taking responsibility, and for intervening in others’ lives in an attempt to have them take responsibility (e.g., therapy with abuse perpetrators and critical pedagogy). I work to demonstrate the ethical and political importance of: the impossibility of exhaustive knowledge, the illimitable and contingent power relations that are ever-present and give shape to what we can know, and the ways our possibilities in life are constituted through particular contact with others. I explore ethical transgressions I have committed, interrogating these events in conversation with explorations of resonant situations in published texts, as well as with research conversations with friends about their ethical transgressions and how they make sense of them. I tentatively advocate for, and attempt to demonstrate, ways of governing ourselves when we are positioned ‘on top’ of social hierarchies – in order to align our responses and relationships more closely with radical political commitments. systemic oppression ethics performativity différance governmentality subjectification relationality taking responsibility power/knowledge accountability personal-is-political deconstruction narrative practice racism sexism ableism colonialism decolonization whiteness masculinity abuse harm invitational practice complicity reflexivity self-critique resonance pedagogy flows of becoming queer theory disability studies critical social work therapy power ethical narrative political rationality treatment violence mad studies antipsychiatry psychology gendered peer abuse abuse intervention abuse perpetration intentional states friendship auto-ethnography critical pedagogy An Ethics Inaccessible to Liberalism 0733 0626 0452 0740 0628 0422 0998 0340 0451 0622 0384

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