Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus: Repression, Transformation and Assistance

349 Pages·2014·1.8 MB·English

by  Dave Holmes

Power and the Psychiatric aPParatus
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Power and the
Psychiatric apparatus
repression, transformation and assistance
edited by
dave holmes
Jean daniel Jacob
amélie Perron
University of Ottawa, Canada
© dave holmes, Jean daniel Jacob and amélie Perron 2014
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Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work.
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Power and the psychiatric apparatus : repression, transformation, and assistance / edited by
dave holmes, Jean daniel Jacob, and amélie Perron.
p. ; cm.
includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4724-1731-2 (hardback : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-4724-1733-6 (epub) --
ISBN 978-1-4724-1732-9 (ebook)
I. Holmes, Dave, 1967– editor of compilation. II. Jacob, Jean Daniel, editor of compilation.
iii. Perron, amélie, editor of compilation.
[dnlm: 1. Psychiatry--methods. 2. coercion. 3. mentally ill Persons. 4. Power
(Psychology) 5. Repression, Psychology. WM 100]
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Contents
List of Tables vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Foreword xix
Acknowledgements xxi
Introduction: Unmasking the Psychiatric Apparatus 1
Jean Daniel Jacob, Amélie Perron and Dave Holmes
Part I rePressIon
1 Varieties of Psychiatric Criticism 25
Thomas Szasz
2 Censoring Violence: Censorship and Critical Research
in Forensic Psychiatry 35
Dave Holmes and Stuart J. Murray
3 The “Rhetoric of Rights” in Mental Health: Between
Equality, Responsibility and Solidarity 47
Emmanuelle Bernheim
4 Power, Control and Coercion: Exploring
Hyper-Masculine Performativity by Private Guards
in a Psychiatric Ward Setting 61
Matthew S. Johnston and Jennifer M. Kilty
5 Containment Practices in Psychiatric Care 91
Eimear Muir-Cochrane and Adam Gerace
6 Pediatric Bipolar Disorder: An Object of Study
in the Creation of an Illness 117
David Healy and Joanna Le Noury
7 Delinquent Life: Forensic Psychiatry and Neoliberal Biopolitics 135
Stuart J. Murray and Sarah Burgess
vi Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus
Part II transformatIon
8 Structural Othering: Towards an Understanding of Place
in the Construction of Disruptive Subjectivities 149
Jean Daniel Jacob, Amélie Perron, and Pascale Corneau
9 When You Try to Speak Truth to Power: What Happens
if the Powerful Turn Off Their Hearing Aids? 165
Paula J. Caplan
10 Mainstreaming the Mentally Ill 183
Jem Masters, Trudy Rudge and Sandra West
11 Legally-coerced Consent to Treatment in the
Criminal Justice System 199
Jennifer A. Chandler
12 Psy Policing: The Borderlands of Psychiatry and Security 217
Rachel Jane Liebert
Part III assIstance
13 Twenty-first-century “Snake Oil” Salesmanship:
Contemporary Care of the Suicidal Person in
Formal Mental Health Care 235
John R. Cutcliffe and Sanaz Riahi
14 Sex Offender Therapy: Collusion, Confession
and Game-Playing 251
Dave Mercer
15 Shock Therapies as Intensification of the War against
Madness in Hamburg, Germany: 1930–1943 267
Thomas Foth
16 American Medical Psychiatry: A Contemporary
Case of Lysenkoism 287
David H. Jacobs
17 The Evolution of Sex Offender Treatment: From Confinement to
Consent 297
Natasha M. Knack and J. Paul Fedoroff
Index 313
List of Tables
13.1 Findings regarding inpatient suicides and levels of observations 241
13.2 Suicides 243
15.1 Number of treated patients and number of patients who died in
Eilbektal, the asylum at the University of Hamburg (Ebbinghaus
1984: 143) 282
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Notes on Contributors
Emmanuelle Bernheim, PhD is Assistant Professor in the Department Law and
Legal Sciences at the Université du Québec à Montreal. During her graduate studies,
in addition to her thesis, she looked at various aspects of psychiatric practices:
expert testimony, use of seclusion and restraint, commitment, care without consent
and rights of psychiatric patients. Dr Bernheim’s research examines the role of law
and the justice system in the establishment and maintenance of social inequalities.
She recently began a project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada on the intervention of child protection services and
the courts with mothers who have been committed. She also works on the impact
of the privatization of Quebec’s healthcare system on access to care for groups
such as children and people with mental illness, consent to and refusal of treatment
in physical and psychiatric care, psychiatrists’ understanding and use of legal
mechanisms, the adequacy and use of procedural mechanisms in psychiatrists’ and
judges’ decisions, and the evolution of case law on commitment and psychiatric care.
Sarah Burgess, PhD received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley
in Rhetoric. She is currently Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and
the Director of Gender and Sexualities Studies at the University of San Francisco,
USA. Working at the intersections of rhetorical, legal, political, and queer
theory, her research focuses on the operations and effects of legal recognition for
populations who traditionally do not have a voice in law. Her current book project,
tentatively titled Making a Scene: Scandals of Legal Recognition, examines the
possibilities and limits of recognition for transgender people in international law.
Her recent work can be found in The International Journal of Law in Context and
Critical Interventions in the Ethics of Healthcare (Ashgate, 2009).
Paula J. Caplan, PhD is a clinical and research psychologist and associate at
Harvard University’s DuBois Institute. She is the author of twelve books, including
They Say You’re Crazy: How the World’s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide
Who’s Normal (her disturbing insider’s story of how the Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders is put together), Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis (which
she edited), The Myth of Women’s Masochism, Don’t Blame Mother: Mending the
Mother-Daughter Relationship, You’re Smarter Than They Make You Feel: How
the Experts Intimidate Us and What We Can Do About It, When Johnny and Jane
Come Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans (which was chosen
best psychology book of 2011 by the Association of American Publishers in their
PROSE Awards competition and was given the Independent Publishers’ Silver