10. ANDREW-PAUL LIBBITER
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ANDREW-PAUL LIBBITER is an academic who published a paper in 1994 entitled Asylum, commitment, and psychiatric treatment in historical context. ANDREW-PAUL LIBBITER published this work as part of a team: Libbiter, Andrew Paul. Here is a description of this work: This thesis was a sociological, historically informed, study of the interactions between three key variables over a two hundred year period. These variables were the changing nature of asylum- based care of the mentally ill, the epistemological and professional dominance of the psychiatric profession, and changing periods of mental health legislation. Specifically, the study examined how historical and contemporary tensions between the perspectives of psychiatry and law have been manifested in British Columbia, and with what consequences. Two qualitative methodological approaches were utilised. Data was obtained principally by historical analysis, A secondary component of the study was four exploratory-descriptive, in-depth interviews with mental health consumer-activists. These interviews were conducted to explore their beliefs regardin.