Abstract
In this account, I will examine the argument that psychiatric diagnoses are a social construction, leading to the adoption of the term madness, rather than mental illness, within critical psychological debates, followed by a critique of the regulatory power of bio-psychiatry in the definition and treatment of madness.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology |
| Editors | Thomas Teo |
| Place of Publication | U.S. |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Pages | 1111-1117 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781461455837 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781461455820 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |