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Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted

This study examines ways in which psychiatry is used to control, segregate, and "treat" society's unwanted: adult dependents, the homeless, and those labelled mentally ill. Just as society once put the indigent in the poorhouse and workhouse, housed epileptics in state institutions, and imprisoned defaulting debtors, today coercive psychiatric practices are used to dispose of "undesirable" persons. But such coercion, the author contends, is counterproductive, injurious to the individual's dignity and liberty, and morally wrong. He argues that society must reject the infantilization of mental patients, and accord them the same rights and freedoms due those with bodily illness or no illness at all.

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B06911B-Leadership CR THTersedia
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B-Leadership CR TH
Penerbit
New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc..,
Deskripsi Fisik
264 pages
Bahasa
English
ISBN/ISSN
978-0471010128
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B-Leadership
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text
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Cetakan 1
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Buku Leadership
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Hard Cover
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