Psychiatry Interrogated: An Institutional Ethnography Anthology

“This is the first book I am aware of to combine critical interrogation of the relations of psychiatry with approaches influenced by institutional ethnography. Chapters open up for investigation a number of the terrains of psychiatric practice that must be challenged and transformed. For those concerned with psychiatry as a ruling relation this is an important opening up of inquiry.” (Gary Kinsman, scholar, activist, and co-author of “The Canadian War on Queers and an editor of Sociology for Changing the World”)

“The institutional ethnography focus distinguishes this book from any other book that is critical of psychiatry.  Likewise, the critique of psychiatry within its pages enters into several under-explored corners of psychiatric oppression and thus distinguishes it from any other book written in the field of institutional ethnography.  This book, then, must be read as an important contribution not only to sociology and institutional ethnography, but also to the theorizing and exposing of psychiatry as a regime of ruling taking place within critiques of psychiatry.” (Brenda A. LeFrançois, Professor, School of Social Work, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, and Editor of “Intersectionalities”)