Abstract

In response to my positioning of both cross-cultural psychiatry and the user/survivor movement as alternatives to dominant mental health discourses, Cohen importantly points out that, although such resistance to psychiatric knowledge has both spread and increased, it should be acknowledged that:[W]ith the proliferation in categories of mental illness and the further infiltration of the psychiatric discourse into everyday life, the hegemony of psychiatric knowledge is probably more powerful and pervasive currently than at any previous point in the profession’s history.Elaborating on an argument perhaps only alluded to in my article, Cohen at several points makes clear the connection between the hierarchical systems...