The Rape of Psyche
Автор:
J R Mansberger, 534 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
9781849914376
Description This book is a verbatim account which lays bare for inspection the Kafkaesque reality of a young American's experience inside the modern British mental health care system. Combining the pathos and tragedy of Greek myth and the analytic dryness of textbook case study, it may be seen as a chronicle of a young man's heroic battle against arrest, incarceration, detention, enforced medication, and the infliction of extreme mental suffering within a medico-legal system devoid of fewer human rights than those accorded to anyone arrested under the Terrorism Act. Incorporating only original medical records and documents and reading like a fly-on-the-wall docudrama, it pushes the boundaries of "confidentiality" and discards the mantle of secrecy which has always clothed the profession of psychiatry, forcing us to re-examine our concept of "mental illness" and its "treatment." In the annals of psychiatry or modern literature, a detailed objective...
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