Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health

The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health is a one-stop resource for those with a professional or academic interest in mental health [...] Moreover, the book is very timely given the dominance of conservative approaches to mental health, the rise of neoliberal ideologies, and the increasing medicalisation of everyday life. This book is highly recommended for those with an interest in exploring critical perspectives to mental health and illness and would be a valuable resource for students, researchers or professionals in mental health or related fields. - Claire Moran, Feminism & Psychology [Cohen's chapter on Marxist theory] and many of the other chapters in the book provide useful summaries of aspects of critical mental health studies, perhaps particularly for students. The book can therefore be highly recommended. - Duncan Double, Psychreg Journal of Psychology This book is well worth reading for the range and depth of its subject matter, and above all, for its determination to ask vital but troubling questions about the mental health treatment professions and whose interests they really serve. - Paul Moloney, The Psychologist Magazine The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health provides a comprehensive, wide-ranging, and up-to-date portrayal of a wide variety of critical approaches toward psychiatry in a global context. It is an essential tool for all students, researchers, and clinicians who are interested in alternative models of the theory, history, politics, and professional practice of mental health and illness. - Allan V. Horwitz, Board of Governors Professor Sociology, Rutgers University, USA Bruce Cohen has brought together a wide variety of critical scholarship on mental health issues in this new Routledge Handbook. Anyone seeking an overview of the diverse and often contradictory sorts of critique of psychiatric orthodoxy that have developed in the past half century will find this a provocative and enlightening volume. - Andrew Scull, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego