How Long to Read Psychiatry, Mental Institutions, and the Mad in Apartheid South Africa

How Long Does it Take to Read Psychiatry, Mental Institutions, and the Mad in Apartheid South Africa?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 36 minutes to read Psychiatry, Mental Institutions, and the Mad in Apartheid South Africa by Tiffany Fawn Jones

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In the late 1970s, South African mental institutions were plagued with scandals about human rights abuse, and psychiatric practitioners were accused of being agents of the apartheid state. Between 1939 and 1994, some psychiatric practitioners supported the mandate of the racist and heteropatriarchal government and most mental patients were treated abysmally. However, unlike studies worldwide that show that women, homosexuals and minorities were institutionalized in far higher numbers than heterosexual men, Psychiatry, Mental Institutions and the Mad in Apartheid South Africa reveals how in South Africa, per capita, white heterosexual males made up the majority of patients in state institutions. The book therefore challenges the monolithic and omnipotent view of the apartheid government and its mental health policy. While not contesting the belief that human rights abuses occurred within South Africa’s mental health system, Tiffany Fawn Jones argues that the disparity among practitioners and the fluidity of their beliefs, along with the disjointed mental health infrastructure, diffused state control. More importantly, the book shows how patients were also, to a limited extent, able to challenge the constraints of their institutionalization. This volume places the discussions of South Africa’s mental institutions in an international context, highlighting the role that international organizations, such as the Church of Scientology, and political events such as the gay rights movement and the Cold War also played in shaping mental health policy in South Africa.

How long is Psychiatry, Mental Institutions, and the Mad in Apartheid South Africa?

Psychiatry, Mental Institutions, and the Mad in Apartheid South Africa by Tiffany Fawn Jones is 273 pages long, and a total of 69,069 words.

This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Psychiatry, Mental Institutions, and the Mad in Apartheid South Africa Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 17 minutes to read Psychiatry, Mental Institutions, and the Mad in Apartheid South Africa aloud.

What Reading Level is Psychiatry, Mental Institutions, and the Mad in Apartheid South Africa?

Psychiatry, Mental Institutions, and the Mad in Apartheid South Africa is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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