This edited volume is an anthology of institutional ethnography (IE) inquiries into
psychiatry-the first ever to be written. It focuses on a large variety of different geographic
locations and constitutes a major contribution to anti critical psychiatry as well as
institutional ethnography. Themes include the DSM the use and protection of problematic
psychiatric research the penetration of psychiatry into the workplace. Adding depth and breath
the contributors while all are schooled in IE come from a large variety of walks of life
authors including: academics psychiatric survivors investigative reporters activists nurses
artists and lawyers-each bringing their own unique expertise standpoint to bear. The result is
an intellectually rigorous book contributions to several disciplines ammunition for activism
and a compelling read that cannot be put down.
