Description: In this penetrating analysis, Nikolas Rose critiques the powerful part that psychiatry has come to play in the lives of so many across the world. A series of chapters, each tackling an area of dispute head on, opens wide the terrain of debate. Ultimately, the book argues that, as a branch of social medicine, another psychiatry is possible.
Review Quotes:
"Nikolas Rose brings a remarkable wealth of scholarship and experience to seriously difficult questions about mental health - and his inspiring answers suggest original and enlightening solutions. Rose's brilliant analyses provide stunning revelations about practical ways mental distress can be alleviated. Everyone with any stake in psychiatry and mental health should read this book."
--Emily Martin, New York University
"In another landmark volume, Rose presents the culmination of decades of critical questioning about the reach of psychiatry's long arms into all our lives, whether we live with mental distress or not. His 'Seven Hard Questions' are ones we need to keep asking."
--Sarah Carr, University of Birmingham
"If you want a scholarly and thought-provoking critique of current psychiatry, then this is the book for you."
--Tom Burns, Times Higher Education Supplement
"Even-handed, meticulously researched, offering a wealth of historical detail explaining how psychiatry has got to where it is today."
--The Psychologist
"Rose's writing is logical and straightforward, and he is able to convey complex arguments and nebulous ideas in a way that will be clear to most readers."
--Journal of Mental Health