Troubled Persons Industries: The Expansion of Psychiatric Categories beyond Psychiatry
Troubled Persons Industries: The Expansion of Psychiatric Categories beyond Psychiatry is a thought-provoking examination of how psychiatric diagnoses, treatment systems, and mental health categorizations have expanded far beyond traditional clinical boundaries. Now available in Pakistan through BooksHub.pk, this book provides an insightful critique of the medicalization of everyday behaviors, societal influences on mental health, and the industrialization of psychiatry.
The book explores how the psychiatric profession, pharmaceutical companies, insurance systems, and governmental institutions contribute to the creation and proliferation of new diagnostic categories. It investigates the social, cultural, and economic forces shaping mental health care, highlighting the impact of expanded psychiatric definitions on patients, families, and healthcare systems. Readers will gain a critical understanding of how psychiatric authority extends into education, workplaces, criminal justice, and public policy, sometimes blurring the lines between clinical need and social control.
✅ Key Features
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Comprehensive analysis of psychiatric expansion beyond clinical practice
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Explores medicalization, diagnostic inflation, and industrial influences
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Case studies and examples from global mental health systems
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Ideal for students, researchers, mental health professionals, and policymakers
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Highlights ethical, social, and cultural implications of expanded psychiatric categories
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Written by experts in psychiatry, sociology, and health policy
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Engages critically with the intersections of medicine, society, and industry
