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Psychiatry, as a discipline, consists of individual practitioners, professional bodies, published texts, nosological categories, diagnostic instruments, therapeutic technologies, and specifically designed spaces oriented towards the therapeutic regulation of troubled persons.
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In this chapter I use ‘carceral’ to refer to the totality of the prison system, including prison policies, physical prison infrastructure, prison rules and protocols, and the actions-knowledge-power of prison staff. ‘Carcerality’ is used to refer to how this complex system operates to control and discipline prisoners.
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‘Iatrogenic’ is used here to describe harm and illness caused by medical examination and/or treatment.
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McBride, RS. (2022). Carceral Psychiatry. In: Harbusch, M. (eds) Troubled Persons Industries. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83745-7_10
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