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Reality Police

Anthony Brandt

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Description:"Reality Police is about the experience of mental patients in this country's mental-health system, about what happens to them once they have been labeled 'mentally ill' and shoved into the system to be 'cured." It is about the power of some people to put other people away and what is done to them in the name of mental health. The book analyzes the mental-health system in terms of its function as an enforcer of social standards ... It concludes by examining the possibilities for changing the system ... Anthony Brandt spent several years ... interviewing ex-patients (including members of the Mental Patients Liberation Project) and mental-health workers, and experiencing firsthand the system at its core--for simulating a breakdown, he committed himself to Hudson Valley State Hospital in Poughkeepsie, New York, where his experiences led him to understand just how fragile was his own acknowledged stability ..."--Book jacket.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Reality Police. To get started finding Reality Police, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 368

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: 1975

ISBN: h2RFAAAAYAAJ

Description: "Reality Police is about the experience of mental patients in this country's mental-health system, about what happens to them once they have been labeled 'mentally ill' and shoved into the system to be 'cured." It is about the power of some people to put other people away and what is done to them in the name of mental health. The book analyzes the mental-health system in terms of its function as an enforcer of social standards ... It concludes by examining the possibilities for changing the system ... Anthony Brandt spent several years ... interviewing ex-patients (including members of the Mental Patients Liberation Project) and mental-health workers, and experiencing firsthand the system at its core--for simulating a breakdown, he committed himself to Hudson Valley State Hospital in Poughkeepsie, New York, where his experiences led him to understand just how fragile was his own acknowledged stability ..."--Book jacket.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Reality Police. To get started finding Reality Police, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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