Asylum to Anarchy

Following the classic work on asylums by Erving Goffman, this is a study of democratic tyranny, a tyranny of the therapeutic, in which naked power replaced the ideals of a therapeutic community designed to eliminate hierarchy and bureaucracy. It is a detailed study of a London day hospital, a model community for psychoanalytic treatment in a democratic setting which went badly wrong in its attempt to capture the momentum of de-institutionalization in mental health care. It is also a critique of power for our time, as it moves well beyond a case study to analyse shifts in social control

Political science · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Philosophy · Psychiatric care and mental health services · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

• The fragility of a robust therapeutic technique

  Open Access•Signe Vikkelsø•Theory & Psychology•2012

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• The politics of methodology in `post-medical geography

  Open Access•Hayden Lorimer•Health & Place•1998

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• Spaces of psychiatric contention

  Open Access•Helen Spandler•Health & Place•2009

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• Affective Aprons

  Open Access•Danica Auld, Tracy Ireland et al.•International Journal of…•2018

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• The Challenge of Self-Advocacy

  Open Access•Anne Plumb•Feminism & Psychology•1993

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• The Organization(s) of Violence

  Open Access•J Hearn•Human Relations•1994

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• The social context of occupational stress in a caring profession

  Open Access•Jocelyn A Handy, Jocelyn Handy•Social Science & Medicine•1991

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