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Laddar... On Our Own: Patient-Controlled Alternatives to the Mental Health Systemav Judi Chamberlin
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. 9/5/22 An important book that any mental health professional, patient, ex-patient or person looking to understand the mental health system. Its from a 1970s POV, so its limited to the kind of perspective of a white, middle class, American woman but it still has a relevance today because little has changed in the 50 years since and something are worse. I had no idea that the author stayed in what I would now call a 'peer respite center' in 1975, 40 years before I knew of them and that is a crime against humanity that they are still considered 'radical'. It shows how psychiatry still doesn't understand the harms of any form of institutional psychiatry. There is no benevolent, benefical form, its just prison. And both of those result in people becoming institutional subjects. And mental patients are prisoners who have committed no crime and who have no recourse in any legitimate court. After their release, because of stigma, they are burdened with discrimination for the rest of their lives like prisoners.
This is a book about psychiatry and alternatives to it, written from a patient's point of view. For too long, mental patients have been faceless, voiceless people. We have been thought of, at worst, as subhuman monsters, or, at best, as pathetic cripples, who might be able to hold down menial jobs and eke out meagre existences, given constant professional support. Not only have others thought of us in this stereotyped way, we have believed it of ourselves. It is only in this decade, with the emergence and growth of the mental patients' liberation movement, that we ex-patients have begun to shake off this distorted image and to see ourselves for what we are- a diverse group of people, with strengths and weaknesses, abilities and needs, and ideas of our own. Our ideas about our "care" and "treatment" at the hands of psychiatry, about the nature of "mental illness," and about new and better ways to deal with (and truly to help) people undergoing emotional crises differ drastically from those of mental health professionals. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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