Critical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health Titles

Madness Contested

Madness Contested: power and practice

ISBN 978 1 906254 43 8 (2013)

Contributors include Peter Beresford, Mary Boyle, John Cromby, Jacqui Dillon, Dave Harper, Eleanor Longden, Midlands Psychology group, Joanna Moncrieff, David Pilgrim, Phil Thomas and Jan Wallcraft.

This book contests how both society and Mental Health Services…

R.D.Laing

R.D.Laing: 50 years since The Divided Self

ISBN 978 1 906254 54 4 (2012)

Pre-orders will be dispatched from 15th October 2012.

First published in 1960, The Divided Self by Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing (1927–1989) set out to explain psychosis as an ordinary and understandable human experience. Laing’s insight was absolutely…

Clinical Psychology

Clinical Psychology: A critical examination

ISBN 978 1 906254 59 9

Order now for earliest dispatch in July 2013

Any theory is only as strong as its capacity to withstand sustained critical examination.  The practice of critique must, therefore, form the basis of both good academic work and thoughtful clinical practice.

This new…

JCPCP 13.1

JCPCP 13.1 Special Issue for Professor Mark Rapley

ISBN 1471-7646

This JCPCP issue in memory of Mark Rapley is a stimulating, funny, depressing and uplifiting read. Nine papers cover a huge amount of ground in critical psychology and although there's not a duff one there, for example Dan Goodley's laugh-out-loud discourse on…