Main description:

This edited volume is an anthology of institutional ethnography (IE) inquiries into psychiatry-the first ever to be written. It focuses on a large variety of different geographic locations and constitutes a major contribution to anti/critical psychiatry, as well as institutional ethnography. Themes include the DSM, the use and protection of problematic psychiatric research, the penetration of psychiatry into the workplace. Adding depth and breath, the contributors, while all are schooled in IE, come from a large variety of walks of life, authors including: academics, psychiatric survivors, investigative reporters, activists, nurses, artists, and lawyers-each bringing their own unique expertise/standpoint to bear. The result is an intellectually rigorous book, contributions to several disciplines, ammunition for activism, and a compelling read that cannot be put down.

Contents:

Chapter One: Introduction to the Project: IE Researchers Take on Psychiatry, p. 1Chapter Two: Stopping CAMH: An IE Activity Inquiry, p. 34Chapter Three: "A Kind of Collective Freezing Out: How Helping Professionals' Regulatory Bodies Create Professional "Incompetence" and Increase Pathologizable Distress, p. 63Chapter Four: Spirituality: A Participatory Planning Process, p. 96Chapter Five: Operation ASD: Philanthrocapitalism, Spectumization, and the Role of the Parent, p. 126Chapter Six: Interrogating the Rights Discourse and Knowledge Making Regimes of the 'Movement for Global Mental Health', p. 161Chapter Seven: Pathologizing Military Trauma: How Service Members Veterans and Those Who Care about Them Fall Prey to Institutional Capture and the DSM, p. 199Chapter Eight: The Caring Professions, Not So Caring?: An Analysis of Bullying and Distress in the Academy, p. 229Chapter Nine: Creating a Better Workplace in Our Minds, p. 259Chapter Ten: Lawyering for the Mad: Social Organization of Legal Representation in Involuntary Admission Cases in Poland, p. 297Chapter Eleven: By Any Other Name: An Exploration of the Academic Development of Torture and Its Links to the Military and Psychiatry, p. 329The Afterword: Where Have We Been?: What Have We Found Out?; Where do We Go From Here?, p. 370