Mental Health Matters: A Reader

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-5
Psychological approaches to mental health and distress....Pages 6-16
The nature of psychiatric disorders....Pages 17-26
‘Schizophrenia’ re-evaluated....Pages 27-35
Life events, loss and depressive disorders....Pages 36-45
Women and madness: the mental asylum....Pages 46-53
The cultural context of mental distress....Pages 54-63
Labelling mental illness....Pages 64-69
On being sane in insane places....Pages 70-78
Reversing deviance....Pages 79-86
Some problematic aspects of dementia....Pages 87-96
Families and the experience of mental distress....Pages 97-104
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Introduction....Pages 107-109
Mental health and inequality....Pages 110-120
George III and changing views of madness....Pages 121-131
Professionals, the state and the development of mental health policy....Pages 132-142
Scare in the community: Britain in moral panic....Pages 143-155
Beyond the asylum....Pages 157-162
Media images of mental distress....Pages 163-170
Towards understanding suicide....Pages 171-180
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Two notions of risk in mental health debates....Pages 181-185
The history of tranquilliser use....Pages 186-195
The black experience of mental health law....Pages 196-204
The need to change mental health law....Pages 205-211
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Introduction....Pages 215-217
The history of the user movement in the United Kingdom....Pages 218-225
The lives of ‘users’....Pages 226-237
Structuring effective user involvement....Pages 238-241
Mental health services that empower women....Pages 242-251
Asian women speak out....Pages 252-259
Focusing on health: focus groups for consulting about health needs....Pages 260-265
Developing crisis services....Pages 266-273
Front Matter....Pages 275-275
Introduction....Pages 277-281
Using research to change practice....Pages 282-289
Reviewing advances in psychiatry....Pages 290-296
Normalising professional skills....Pages 297-303
Developing a bridge to women’s social action....Pages 304-308
Working psychotherapeutically with adult survivors of child sexual abuse....Pages 309-318
Treating anorexia nervosa....Pages 319-325
Rehabilitating voice-hearers....Pages 326-332
Front Matter....Pages 275-275
Communicating as if your life depended upon it: life history work with people with dementia....Pages 333-338
Practising cultural psychiatry: the doctor’s dilemma....Pages 339-345
Maintaining an emergency service....Pages 346-354
Working with refugees and torture survivors: help for the helpers....Pages 355-363
Doing being human: reflective practice in mental health work....Pages 364-369
Back Matter....Pages 371-380