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Critical A-Z of Electroshock

Critical A-Z of Electroshock


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"A refreshing journey through the alphabet, with the lens focused on electroshock - this book is clear, provocative, accessible and full of illuminating examples and anecdotes from eminent psychologists, psychiatrists and others from history. It makes for a riveting read, one that will at times make you laugh out loud and then instantly recoil in horror. At other times, it will make you cringe with shame (if you are part of the psy-professions that allow this practice to continue). Always, it will shock with a blunt and hard-hitting dismantling of electroshock. The shock is amplified when some of those subjected to electroshock, well-known figures in history - musicians, dancers, politicians, or their partners, are named, humanised, no longer statistics of faceless 'patients' or 'clients', but people the public may recognise. The book is a reminder, if one is needed, that electroshock should have no place in mental health practice today. But it does. When future generations look back in fifty years and ask 'Really, they did that? Why?' what will we answer?" Professor Nimisha Patel, University of East London and International Centre for Health and Human Rights. This searing critique examines how psychiatry, allied with psychology, experiments on people in the name of helping and healing. Both professions have a mainly 'boys with toys' approach in using the latest technologies to try to change people. Covering over three hundred years of the psy industry, this volume explores everything from the invention of mental illness and physical assault called 'treatment' to the latest efforts to use electricity to torture us into submission.
About the Author: Craig Newnes has many selves including author, editor, musician, independent scholar, dad, gardener and Consulting Critical Psychologist. Until retiring after a near-fatal road accident, he was a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Director of Psychological Therapies for Shropshire's Mental Health (NHS) Trust and Chair of the British Psychological Society Psychotherapy Section. He has published numerous book chapters and academic articles and is editor of The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy. His books include Clinical Psychology: A critical examination and the edited volumes: Children in Society: Politics, policies and interventions, Making and Breaking Children's Lives; Spirituality and Psychotherapy; This is Madness: A critical look at psychiatry and the future of mental health services; This is Madness Too: A further critical look at mental health services all from PCCS Books. His latest books are Inscription, Diagnosis and Deception in the Mental Health Industry: How Psy governs us all (Palgrave Macmillan: 2016) and an edited collection, Teaching Critical Psychology: International perspectives (Routledge: 2018). With his dad he has written a book on the Malaysian Emergency; Malaya. His novels Paris and Tearagh't are published by The Real Press and tracks from his band Sandghosts are available from Amazon.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781912119523
  • Publisher: Real Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Real Press
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 372
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Width: 127 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1912119528
  • Publisher Date: 16 Jun 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 453 gr


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