Dave Holmes - Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus: Repression, Transformation, and Assistance. Edited by Dave Holmes, Jean Daniel Jacob, and Amlie Perron

POWER AND THE PSYCHIATRIC APPARATUS

Repression, Transformation and Assistance

Edited by

DAVE HOLMES
JEAN DANIEL JACOB
AMLIE PERRON
University of Ottawa, Canada

ASHGATE

Dave Holmes, Jean Daniel Jacob and Amlie Perron 2014

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Power and the psychiatric apparatus: repression, transformation, and assistance/edited by Dave Holmes, Jean Daniel Jacob, and Amlie Perron.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4724-1731-2 (hardback: alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-4724-1733-6 (epub) -- ISBN 978-1-4724-1732-9 (ebook)

I. Holmes, Dave, 1967editor of compilation. II. Jacob, Jean Daniel, editor of compilation. III. Perron, Amlie, editor of compilation.

[DNLM: 1. Psychiatry--methods. 2. Coercion. 3. Mentally Ill Persons. 4. Power (Psychology) 5. Repression, Psychology. WM 100]

RC454.4

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2013039236

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Jean Daniel Jacob, Amlie Perron and Dave Holmes

Thomas Szasz

Dave Holmes and Stuart J. Murray

Emmanuelle Bernheim

Matthew S. Johnston and Jennifer M. Kilty

Eimear Muir-Cochrane and Adam Gerace

David Healy and Joanna Le Noury

Stuart J. Murray and Sarah Burgess

Jean Daniel Jacob, Amlie Perron, and Pascale Corneau

Paula J. Caplan

Jem Masters, Trudy Rudge and Sandra West

Jennifer A. Chandler

Rachel Jane Liebert

John R. Cutcliffe and Sanaz Riahi

Dave Mercer

Thomas Foth

David H. Jacobs

Natasha M. Knack and J. Paul Fedoroff

Emmanuelle Bernheim, PhD is Assistant Professor in the Department Law and Legal Sciences at the Universit du Qubec Montreal. During her graduate studies, in addition to her thesis, she looked at various aspects of psychiatric practices: expert testimony, use of seclusion and restraint, commitment, care without consent and rights of psychiatric patients. Dr Bernheims research examines the role of law and the justice system in the establishment and maintenance of social inequalities. She recently began a project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada on the intervention of child protection services and the courts with mothers who have been committed. She also works on the impact of the privatization of Quebecs healthcare system on access to care for groups such as children and people with mental illness, consent to and refusal of treatment in physical and psychiatric care, psychiatrists understanding and use of legal mechanisms, the adequacy and use of procedural mechanisms in psychiatrists and judges decisions, and the evolution of case law on commitment and psychiatric care.

Sarah Burgess, PhD received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in Rhetoric. She is currently Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and the Director of Gender and Sexualities Studies at the University of San Francisco, USA. Working at the intersections of rhetorical, legal, political, and queer theory, her research focuses on the operations and effects of legal recognition for populations who traditionally do not have a voice in law. Her current book project, tentatively titled Making a Scene: Scandals of Legal Recognition, examines the possibilities and limits of recognition for transgender people in international law. Her recent work can be found in The International Journal of Law in Context and Critical Interventions in the Ethics of Healthcare (Ashgate, 2009).

Paula J. Caplan, PhD is a clinical and research psychologist and associate at Harvard Universitys DuBois Institute. She is the author of twelve books, including They Say Youre Crazy: How the Worlds Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Whos Normal (her disturbing insiders story of how the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is put together), Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis (which she edited), The Myth of Womens Masochism, Dont Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-Daughter Relationship, Youre Smarter Than They Make You Feel: How the Experts Intimidate Us and What We Can Do About It, When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans (which was chosen best psychology book of 2011 by the Association of American Publishers in their PROSE Awards competition and was given the Independent Publishers Silver Medal in the psychology/mental health category) and Thinking Critically About Research on Sex and Gender (co-authored with her son, Jeremy B. Caplan). She is a longtime activist for the rights of people who have been harmed because of being given psychiatric labels and for war veterans whose understandable human suffering is too often being mislabelled as mental illness, with disastrous results. She is an advocate of nonmedical, alternative, humane approaches to helping reduce human suffering.

Jennifer Chandler, PhD is Associate Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, Canada, where she teaches a course in mental health law and neuro-ethics. She also teaches courses in general medical law and tort law and has taught legal theory at the graduate level. Her research interests focus on the socio-legal and ethical implications of advances in biomedical science and technology with a particular interest in neuroscience and the law.

Pascale Corneau, BSc is a research assistant in the University Research Chair in Forensic Nursing at the School of Nursing, University of Ottawa. She has worked on projects related to psychiatric nursing and also on research projects exploring violence in nursing practice.

John R. Cutcliffe, RN, PhD was appointed to the Acadia Professor of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Chair at the University of Maine in 2010; he also holds adjunct professor positions at universities in the United Kingdom, Portugal, Malta, Turkey and Canada. Johns research interests focus on hope, suicide and clinical supervision; in 2003 he was recognized by the Federal Government of Canada and cited as one of the top 20 Research Leaders of Tomorrow for his research focusing on hope and suicidology. He has published extensivelyover 190 papers/chapters, eleven books and over 70 abstracts/conference proceedings. His work has been translated into German, Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese and Turkish. He is currently working with colleagues from the University of Ulster, Dublin City University, the University of Coimbra and Vestfold University College, Norway on an international program of research focusing on suicide. He has recently served as the national Canadian Representative for the International Association of Suicide Prevention and the Director of the International Society of Psychiatric Nurses: Education and Research Division: he is the Associate Editor for Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Journal as well as serving on the boards of eight other health or education focused journals. And in 2012 was invited by the Director of Medicine at Yale University to join the first international advisory board on Clinical Supervision. He retains his interest in clinical work, particularly around care of the suicidal person, inspiring hope, clinical supervision and dealing with violence and aggression, and more broadly in psychiatric nursing.