Description
| Product ID: | 9780367819378 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Psychiatry, Politics and PTSD |
| Subtitle: | Breaking Down |
| Authors: | Author: Janice Haaken |
| Page Count: | 186 |
| Subjects: | Feminism and feminist theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Psychotherapy, Trauma and shock, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Social, group or collective psychology, Psychotherapy, Trauma & shock |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Integrating critical and feminist psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, this text offers a distinct perspective of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a clinical and social phenomenon. Integrating critical and feminist psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, this text offers a distinct perspective of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a clinical and social phenomenon. The book draws upon interviews carried out in field settings to examine the true individual and social costs of being diagnosed with PTSD. The author examines how social contexts and social movements shape diagnostic thinking about mental trauma and how the PTSD diagnosis emerged as a symptom of a crisis in psychiatry over demands to recognize the social and political origins of mental suffering. Chapters explore case examples from a range of settings, such as military and veterans'' affairs clinics, war zones and refugee camps, psychosomatic medicine, the criminal justice system, and more. Providing a new way of thinking about PTSD and an alternative to both critics and defenders of the diagnosis, this text will be useful for scholars and practitioners in psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, public health policy as well as, sociology, social work, gender studies, and the law. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-07-20 |
