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Author Jones, Tiffany F. (Tiffany Fawn), 1972-

Title Psychiatry, mental institutions, and the mad in apartheid South Africa / by Tiffany Fawn Jones
Published New York : Routledge, 2012

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Description 1 online resource
Series African studies: history, politics, economics, and culture
African studies (Routledge (Firm))
Contents Prospects of a progressive mental health system in South Africa before apartheid: Tara Hospital and psychobiology, c.1939-1948 -- The "disordered" state: government policies and institutions for the administration of the mad during apartheid, 1948-1973 -- Patient accounts: life in state institutions and challenging exile, 1939-1961 -- Heinous crimes: community and cross-cultural psychiatry, and state mental health services for non-whites, 1948-1990 -- Controlling and challenging sexuality: psychiatric struggles over homosexuality in the 1960s-1980s -- "Monopoly on madness?": private long-term mental institutions in South Africa, 1963-1989 -- Critics of the system?: the Church of Scientology and the international vilification of psychiatry in South Africa -- Conclusion
Summary In the late 1970s, South African mental institutions were plagued with scandals about human rights abuse, and psychiatric practitioners were accused of being agents of the apartheid state. Between 1939 and 1994, some psychiatric practitioners supported the mandate of the racist and heteropatriarchal government and most mental patients were treated abysmally. However, unlike studies worldwide that show that women, homosexuals and minorities were institutionalized in far higher numbers than heterosexual men, Psychiatry, Mental Institutions and the Mad in Apartheid South Africa reveals how in Sou
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Subject Mental health services -- South Africa
Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- South Africa
Mentally ill -- Abuse of -- South Africa
Mental health policy -- Social aspects -- South Africa
MEDICAL -- Mental Health.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness.
Mental health services.
Mentally ill -- Abuse of.
Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention.
Race relations.
SUBJECT South Africa -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125494
Subject South Africa.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136473265
1136473262
9780203129555
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9780415754484
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