Product Description: The Psy complex governs us all by inscribing, diagnosing and interfering in our lives. This volume takes historical, sociological and psychological perspectives in exploring the complicity of patients, professions and governments with Psy and attempts by all three to constrain the industry's activities...read more

Product Description: Critique is an essential element of academic study and professional practice. Any theory is only as strong as its ability to withstand critical appraisal. During a 30 year career as a clinical psychologist, researcher and psychological therapies director in the National Health Service (UK), Craig Newnes has published numerous articles and books critiquing psychology in its various manifestations...read more

Product Description: This special issue of "Changes" mixes the views of professionals and patients, poets and academics on death and dying from personal to societal perspectives. Papers from New Zealand to Massachusetts on topics as diverse as working with children with cancer and the Turkish genocide of the Armenians offer a profound and frequently moving or entertaining picture of death, dying and the way society responds to and constructs the end of life...read more