Troubled Persons Industries: The Expansion of Psychiatric Categories beyond Psychiatry
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030837440 | 351 Pages | True EPUB | 0.7 MB
This book critiques the use of psychiatric labelling and psychiatric narratives in everyday areas of institutional and social life across the globe. It engages an interpretive sociology, emphasising the medial and individual everyday practices of medicalisation, and their role in establishing and diffusing conceptions of mental (ab)normality.