The psychiatric hegemon and the limits of resistance

Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 23 (3):301-303 (2016)
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To consider power as not only the direct physical oppression of others, but as a production of authority through discursive knowledge and a claimed ‘expertise’ of the world, has been one of Foucault’s great legacies to critical work on mental health and illness. As arbiters of the ‘truth’ on what is and what is not mental pathology, I agree with Swerdfager that the privileged knowledge of the mental health professions and the consequential marginalization of other forms of knowledge on distress can be better theorized through an investigation of the power/knowledge nexus. Practically, scholars and researchers can begin to address these...

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