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  • At the Heart of a Mad Movement

    The Life and Work of Peter Campbell, Psychiatric System Pioneer

    Edited by Peter Barham, Peter Beresford, Ker Wallwork ...
    Series series The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis Book Series
    This book showcases and celebrates the writings of Peter Campbell, an activist, writer, educator, and a veteran survivor of the mental health system, conveying the variety and vitality of Campbell's accomplishments across the years from 1967 to 2022.Diagnosed with severe psychosis and with a history of hospitalizations reaching back to 1967, Peter Campbell was an indefatigable critic of orthodox ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Closing the Asylum: The Mental Patient in Modern Society

    by Peter Barham ...
    The Covid-19 pandemic has affected the mental health of almost everyone, but it has impacted most severely on disadvantaged groups such as people with severe mental health problems, throwing pre-existing inequalities into sharper and starker relief. Though they had mostly all been closed by the turn of the century, the passing of the old Victorian asylums is still a matter of enduring controversy. ... Read more

    $5.00 USD

  • From the Mental Patient to the Person

    by Dr Peter Barham, Peter Barham, Robert Hayward ...
    The aim of contemporary mental health policy is to enable people who have had a severe mental illness to lead relatively independent lives in the community, rather than be sequestered permanently in the large mental hospitals. In recent years plans to hasten the closure of many of these hospitals have become controversial and generated sharp debate about community care. From the Mental Patient to ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • Power, Powerlessness and Addiction

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  • Disability Studies

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