PCCS Books > This is Madness Too: <em>Critical perspectives on mental health services</em>

Contents

Part One: The lunatics have taken over the asylum

Mental health policy: a suitable case for treatment Peter Beresford and Suzy Croft

Integrating critical psychiatry into psychiatric training Duncan Double

Policing happiness Mark Rapley

Part Two: Risk and dangerousness

What people need to know about the drug treatment of children Peter Breggin

The SSRI suicides David Healey

'I've never said 'no' to anything in my life': helping people with learning disabilities who experience psychological problems Biza Stenfert Kroese and Guy Holmes

Coming off neuroleptics Peter Lehmann

Part Three: Rights . . . and wrongs

Surviving social inclusion Peter Campbell

When 'No' means 'Yes': informed consent themes with children and teenagers Steve Baldwin

Controlled bodies, controlled eating: the treatment of eating disorders Vivien J Lewis and Sara Cureton

Relatives and carers Olive Bucknall and Guy Holmes

Part Four: An end to madness

Survivor research Vivien Lindow

This is therapy: a person-centred critique of the contemporary psychiatric system Pete Sanders and Keith Tudor

The future approach for community mental health Fran Silvestri and Susan Hallwright

Developing a survivor discourse to replace the 'psychopathology' of breakdown and crisis Jan Wallcraft and John Michaelson

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Reviews

'Another excellent book from this trio, following up This is Madness . . . Together the essays present the case for a root and branch overhaul of the mental heath system . . . Go buy it, wherever you stand on these issues. This is serious, evidence-based stuff, not simply polemic. It may change minds as well as fuel the efforts of the converted.'

Catherine Jackson, Mental Health Today, September 2002

'This is a very useful book in the armoury against the medicalization of mental distress. Its particular strength is in the forceful and eloquent contributions by service-users and survivors who offer challenging accounts of the problems they and others have experienced . . . The book flags up the negative effects and potential damage of psychoactive drugs including the inappropriate prescribing of such drugs, particularly to children and people with learning disability. Throughout the chapters run repeated themes of realistic choice being made available to patients and the need to reduce discrimination from both professionals and the public. Powerful political action requires a more co-ordinated approach by service-users and survivors; this book rightly serves to aid that co-ordination.'

Maggie McCormack, The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol.2, No.3, 2002.