Description
This book critiques the use of psychiatric labelling and psychiatric narratives in everyday areas of institutional and social life across the globe.
“The book provides (possibly by accident) radical commentary on emergent forms of medico-industrial-state relations as well … . Indeed, it was the ability to give it such a reading that had the most effect on this reader and fully exposed the book’s value. Thus, though I recommend it to anyone interested in psychiatric hegemony … I also recommend it to every sociologist … . I found its observations and its implications traveled well beyond the parameters of psychiatrization … stunning.” (Robert Wade Kenny, Symbolic Interaction, February 2, 2023)
Martin Harbusch works at the University of Siegen and at the University of Hagen in Germany. His teaching and research address the sociology of mental health, with a specific focus on the use of categories of mental health and illness in contexts of social work. He also teaches Qualitative Methods at the University of Lüneburg, Germany.