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Mental Health and Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives.(Book review)

Canada is by no means inundated by scholarship surrounding the history of people with mental health problems or intellectual disabilities. Despite the existence of some fine essays and treatises on narrower topics, as the Editors of this excellent collection opine, "there have been very few attempts at national synthesis." (1) Worse still, from the perspective of the potential of research to foster a critical climate in an area rife with deference towards mental health professionals and discriminatory attitudes towards the citizens who are the subjects of the law, is Canada's having been "bypassed [by] what is often referred to as the 'revisionist' phase of the 1970s," which ...

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