Sheffield: Call to tackle ‘systemic racism’ in mental health care
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Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America
Little discussed, there is another aspect to the issues surrounding psychotropic drugs. It concerns the use of such drugs, not for psychiatric reasons, but simply to keep more-or-less captive sections of society – e.g. prisoners and those in care homes,…
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Combatting Structural Racism and Classism in Psychiatry: An Interview with Helena Hansen
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
The publishers describe this book as a “… powerful account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illness.” They continue: “The civil rights era is largely remembered as a time of sit-ins, boycotts, and riots. But…
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Cultural Diversity, Mental Health and Psychiatry: The Struggle Against Racism
