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After a brief delay, Volume 7, Issue 2 (Winter 2008), of Radical Psychology is now available online at http://radicalpsychology.org/  Please distrute this notification to your contacts.

 

This is a special issue of the journal, covering papers from the "Madness, Citizenship & Social Justice: A Human Rights Conference" held at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver Canada from June 12-15, 2008. 

 

The issue contains:

 

Cover Art: Stop the Abuse

               by Sue Clark-Wittenberg 

 

1.    Editorial

       by Brenda A. LeFrançois

 

2.    Theorizing Distress: Critical Reflections on Bi-polar and Borderline

       by Christina Martens

 

3.    Stranger Neighbours

       by Helen Douglas

 

4.    Making Bipolar Britney: Proliferating Psychiatric Diagnoses Through Tabloid Media

       by Jijian Veronka

 

5.    A "Patient-Centred" Path Towards Ignoring Patient Rights

       by Rob Wipond

 

6.    We All Go Astray

       by Leon Redler

 

 

Upcoming issues of Radical Psychology: A Journal of Psychology, Politics, and Radicalism will be on the special topic of Feminism and Psychology with three different issues dedicated to: 1) 'Girlhood'; 2) 'Bodily Difference'; and, 3) 'Mothering on the Margins'.

 

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