The Engaged Academic: Academic
Intellectuals and the Psychiatric
Survivor Movement
(2013)
Journal Article
Survivor Movement. Social Movement Studies, 12(2), 138-154. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2012.696821
All Outputs (5)
Self-Harm and Medicine’s Moral code: a historical perspective: 1950-2000 (2010)
Journal Article
Cresswell, M., & Karimova, Z. (2010). Self-Harm and Medicine’s Moral code: a historical perspective: 1950-2000. Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry: An International Journal of Critical Inquiry, 12(2), 158-175. https://doi.org/10.1891/1559-4343.12.2.158
Psychiatric Survivors & Experiential Rights (2009)
Journal Article
Cresswell, M. (2009). Psychiatric Survivors & Experiential Rights. Social Policy and Society, 8(2), 231-243. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1474746408004752Human rights may be categorised as belonging to ‘three generations’: political, social and ‘solidarity’ rights. This paper considers this schema theoretically, deploying the example of the ‘psychiatric survivor’ movement in Britain in support of its... Read More about Psychiatric Survivors & Experiential Rights.
Szasz and his interlocutors: reconsidering Thomas Szasz’s “myth of mental illness” thesis. (2008)
Journal Article
Cresswell, M. (2008). Szasz and his interlocutors: reconsidering Thomas Szasz’s “myth of mental illness” thesis. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 38(1), 23-44. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5914.2008.00359.x
Psychiatric 'survivors' and testimonies of self-harm (2005)
Journal Article
Cresswell, M. (2005). Psychiatric 'survivors' and testimonies of self-harm. Social Science & Medicine, 61(8), 1668-1677. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.03.033UK “Psychiatric Survivors”—a variety of activist groups comprising individuals who have been on the “receiving end” of psychiatric treatment—have, since the mid-1980s, mounted a challenge to the psychiatric system. “Survivors” have formulated their o... Read More about Psychiatric 'survivors' and testimonies of self-harm.