Inscription, Diagnosis, Deception and the Mental Health Industry

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Craig Newnes

   Pages 1-4

3. Thou Shalt Not Kill

   • Craig Newnes

   Pages 5-16

4. The “Service Wounds”

   • Craig Newnes

   Pages 17-27

5. Labelling and Languaging the Other

   • Craig Newnes

   Pages 28-44

6. Rejection: Exclusion and Incarceration

   • Craig Newnes

   Pages 45-56

7. Assault as Treatment

   • Craig Newnes

   Pages 57-80

8. The Oblivion Express: Big Pharma

   • Craig Newnes

   Pages 81-106

9. A Mouthful of Air: Talking Therapies and the Emperor’s New Clothes

   • Craig Newnes

   Pages 107-136

10. Governing Professions I: Us and Them

    • Craig Newnes

    Pages 137-155

11. Governing Professions II: Them and Us

    • Craig Newnes

    Pages 156-184

12. So It Goes

    • Craig Newnes

    Pages 185-209

13. Back Matter

    Pages 210-280

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The Psy complex governs us all by inscribing, diagnosing and interfering in our lives. This volume takes historical, sociological and psychological perspectives in exploring the complicity of patients, professions and governments with Psy and attempts by all three to constrain the industry's activities.

• Anti-psychology
• anti-psychiatry
• counselling
• psychotherapy
• clinical psychology
• critical psychology
• governmentality
• diagnosis
• individualism
• corruption
• inscription
• social role valorization
• critical mental health
• counseling
• health
• psychiatry
• psychology
• Therapie
• therapy

“This is a scholarly contribution that exposes, not for the first time but in a way that is accessible and enjoyable and up to date, how psychiatry and psychology works, the material conditions under which it has been formed and the forms of resistance that might be elaborated to combat it.” (Professor Ian Parker, The Psychologist, Vol. 29 (5), May, 2016)

Craig Newnes is a critic of the Psy industry who has edited and authored numerous books, book chapters and academic articles. He is Editor of The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy and was previously an editor of Clinical Psychology Forum. He was Director of Psychological Therapies for Shropshire's Community and Mental Health Services Trust and chair of the BPS Psychotherapy Section. He is the editor of the book series Critical Examinations, which included his book Clinical Psychology: A Critical Examination. He is an Honorary Lecturer at over a dozen universities. In 2005 he won the CCHR Award in Human Rights for over twenty years of speaking out about the Psy Complex.

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