Radical psychiatry

• Radical psychiatry isolated nuclear family

  Leach

  demand from family is too great and it results in conflict

  parents and children take it out on each other
• Radical psychiatry

  Cooper

  argues the family destroys the inner self of a person by preventing the free adoption of the self

  the child gets taught a role rather than being allowed to develop as they want
• Radical psychiatry marriage and the construction of reality

  Berger and Kellner

  suggests individuals need to make sense of and create order in the world to avoid anomie.

  see marriage as a crucial relationship in the construction of reality
• Radical psychiatry

  Blackett

  family life is a socialisation process, not only for children but also for parents, often through trial and error
• Radical psychiatry

  Kershaw

  Domestic violence counts for 16% of all violent crime

  DV has more repeat victims than other crime - on average there are 35 assaults before a victim calls the police
• Radical psychiatry

  Home Office 2004

  each week one child will be killed by their parent or carer in England and Wales