{"product_id":"psychiatric-hegemony-bruce-m-z-cohen-9781137460509","title":"Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness","description":"This book offers a comprehensive Marxist critique of the business of mental health, demonstrating how the prerogatives of neoliberal capitalism for productive, self-governing citizens have allowed the discourse on mental illness to expand beyond the psychiatric institution into many previously untouched areas of public and private life including the home, school and the workplace. Through historical and contemporary analysis of psy-professional knowledge-claims and practices, Bruce Cohen shows how the extension of psychiatric authority can only be fully comprehended through the systematic theorising of power relations within capitalist society. From schizophrenia and hysteria to Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder, from spinning chairs and lobotomies to shock treatment and antidepressants, from the incarceration of working class women in the nineteenth century to the torture of prisoners of the 'war on terror' in the twenty-first, \u003ci\u003ePsychiatricHegemony\u003c\/i\u003e is an uncompromising account of mental health ideology in neoliberal society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bruce M. Z. Cohen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1137460504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781137460509\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/02\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 241\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Bruce M. Z. Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44063748063487,"sku":"9781137460509","price":129.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5ad9884b-2204-47ef-8673-66b86c42cfb5.jpg?v=1685391413","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/psychiatric-hegemony-bruce-m-z-cohen-9781137460509","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}