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Users and Abusers of
Psychiatry
Users and Abusers of Psychiatry is a radically different, critical
account of the day-to-day practice of psychiatry. Using real-life
examples and her own experience as a clinical psychologist, Lucy
Johnstone argues that the traditional way of treating mental
breakdown can often exacerbate people’s original difficulties leaving
them powerless, disabled and even more distressed.
In pletely revised and updated second edition, she draws on
a range of evidence to present a very different understanding of
psychiatric breakdown than that found in standard medical textbooks.
Users and Abusers of Psychiatry is a challenging but ultimately
inspiring read for all who are involved in mental health – whether as
professionals, students, service users, relatives or interested lay people.
Lucy Johnstone is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology and
Counselling at University of the West of England, Bristol. She is a
chartered clinical psychologist and chartered counselling psychologist
and spent eleven years working in the NHS before moving to her
present post. She has lectured and published widely in the area of
critical approaches to mental health.
Users and Abusers
of Psychiatry
A critical look at psychiatric
practice
Second edition
Lucy Johnstone
London and Philadelphia
First edition published 1989
Second edition published 2000
by Routledge
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