Introduction
R.D. Laing: the psychiatrist of the counterculture
Michel Foucault: the man in the high castle Erving Goffman: madness, and the asylum as a total institution
Frantz Fanon: Black Minds Matter - race, psychiatry and revolutionary politics
Thomas Szasz: a libertarian challenge to the 'therapeutic state'
Franco Basaglia: psychiatry as radical politics
David Rosenhan: an experiment revisited
Plath, Frame and Casey: psychiatry and the literary imagination
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Ian Cummins is senior lecturer in social work at the University of Salford. His main research revolves around the experiences of people with mental health problems in the Criminal Justice system with a focus on policing and mental illness. This is linked to an exploration of the development of the penal state and its interaction with community based mental health services. He is interested in the ways the CJS has become, in many incidences, the default provider of mental health care.
