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In this chapter we review some of the alternative ways of looking at psychopathology that have developed alongside mainstream psychiatry. Psychoanalytic, anti-psychiatry, family therapy and cognitive approaches each provide spaces of resistance and form curious alliances with psychiatric models, and we review some of the advantages and disadvantages of these in the course of the chapter.
There is a close historical link between moral and medical treatments of mental distress. Foucault (1971) argues that this entails bringing into being mental chains which the person weaves for him- or herself as they take on board attributions of responsibility for their abnormal state of mind and for the progress of their cure. This link between morality and medicine has ...
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