Peter Sedgwick (1934-1983) was a Marxist, a trained psychologist and the translator of the revolutionary Victor Serge. His classic book PsychoPolitics is considered to be his major achievement, lauded by psychiatrists, social workers and philosophers alike. Tad Tietze is a psychiatrist who lives in Sydney, Australia. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, Modern Age, Overland, Historical Materialism, Australasian Psychiatry and Critical and Radical Social Work. He tweets as @Dr_Tad.
'A powerful and impassioned defence of psychiatry, urging the Left to confront the harsh realities of mental illness' -- William Davies, author of 'The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being' 'One of the most prolific, versatile and scholarly of this country's socialist writers' -- 'The Times' 'A unique voice, politically committed but always balanced, urgent but always laced with humour' -- 'New Statesman'