Anti-Psychiatry Books

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Below is a list of cognitive libery books

“The Mask of Sanity” by Hervey Cleckley, M.D.
Describing the clinical interviews of Cleckley with adult-male incarcerated psychopaths. It is considered a seminal work and the most influential clinical description of psychopathy in the 20th century. The basic elements of psychopathy outlined by Cleckley are still relevant today. The title refers to the normal "mask" that conceals the mental disorder of the psychopathic person in Cleckley's conceptualization
ISBN-10: 0452253411
ISBN-13: 978-0452253414
http://www.amazon.co.uk/mask-sanity-Plume-book/dp/0452253411/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226595391&sr=8-1

“Madness, Heresy and the Rumor of Angels: Revolt Against the Mental Health System” by Seth Farber
This book, in the tradition of Thomas Szasz, R. D. Laing, and Erving Goffman, is a challenge to the belief-system of psychiatry and to the brutal and disrespectful treatment frequently given to the "mentally ill". The author, a qualified psychologist and psychotherapist and a prominent activist in the fight for mental patients' rights, presents a cogent critique of the medical model as applied to individuals undergoing spiritual or emotional crises. The core of the book consists of seven case histories or "true stories", depicting the impact of the mental health system on very different individuals, who all suffered psychiatric abuse before winning their own struggle for self-determination. These stories are shocking, poignant, alarming, sometimes disgusting, yet ultimately heartening. They expose the "crime against humanity" that is organised coercive psychiatry in the United States today, but they also show that it is sometimes possible to break free from psychiatric oppression and make something worthwhile out of one's own life.
ISBN-10: 0812692004
ISBN-13: 978-0812692006
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Madness-Heresy-Rumor-Angels-Against/dp/0812692004/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226596658&sr=1-1

“Madness and Civilization” by Michel Foucault
An examination of the ideas, practices, institutions, art and literature relating to madness in Western history. It is the abridged English edition of Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique, originally published in 1961 under the title Folie et déraison. Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique. A full translation titled The History of Madness was published by Routledge in June 2006.[1] This was Foucault's first major book, written while he was the Director of the Maison de France in Sweden.
ISBN-10: 067972110X
ISBN-13: 978-0679721109
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Madness-Civilization-M-Foucault/dp/067972110X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226597250&sr=1-1

“The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness” by R. Laing
This book constitutes the definitive attempt to provide an existential account of madness. The traditional approach to understanding madness sees it as a clinical entity, largely divorced from any relevance to the personal or social aspects of the suffering person's life. This book is probably the most intelligent and in depth attack on such a position. Laing argues that madness is not due to chemical imbalances in the brain or any organic disease, and any attempt to understand madness as a pathological process is doomed to failure because it inevitably treats the patient as an object. The book is a logically developed and sustained argument that madness can only be comprehended as the desperate attempts of the individual to integrate their own fragmenting psychological structure.
ISBN-10: 0140135375
ISBN-13: 978-0140135374
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Divided-Self-Existential-Madness-psychology/dp/0140135375/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226597907&sr=1-1

“Psychiatric Slavery” by Thomas Szasz
Re-examining psychiatric interventions from a cultural-historical and political-economic perspective, Szasz demonstrates that the main problem that faces mental health policymakers today is adult dependency. Millions of Americans, diagnosed as mentally ill, are drugged and confined by doctors for non-criminal conduct, go legally unpunished for the crimes they commit, and are supported by the state - not because they are sick, but because they are unproductive and unwanted. Obsessed with the twin beliefs that misbehaviour is a medical disorder and that the duty of the state is to protect adults from themselves, we have replaced criminal-punitive sentences with civil-therapeutic programmes. The result is the relentless loss of individual liberty and erosion of personal responsibility - symptoms of the transformation of a Constitutional Republic into a Therapeutic State, unconstrained by the rule of law.
ISBN-10: 0815605110
ISBN-13: 978-0815605119
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Psychiatric-Slavery-Thomas-Szasz/dp/0815605110/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226598272&sr=1-1