Mental Health Matters is an innovative, interdisciplinary collection of texts which challenge traditional understandings of mental health, emphasising the perspectives of mental health service-users. Combining classic writings about mental health practices and problems from psychiatry, sociology and psychology with specially commissioned new articles, it considers theories and debates in mental health and distress; the social and historical dimensions of mental health; involving users in mental health services and practically improving those services.

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Tom Heller; Open University. Mental Health and Distress : Perspectives and Practice Course Team

Gomm, Roger, Heller, Tom, Muston, Rosemary

edited by Tom Heller ... [et al.]

Macmillan Press in association with the Open University

Macmillan Publishers Limited

Macmillan Education UK

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Palgrave Macmillan

Campbell Books Ltd

Red Globe Press

AOK-Verlag GmbH

I.B. Tauris

K257 course, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, 1996

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, 1996

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Place of publication not identified, 1996

Open University K257, Basingstoke, 1996

First Edition, PS, 1999

October 25, 2000

Germany, Germany

1st ed, London

1996, 2000

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A collection of writings previously published.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

Aimed at Open University students, this interdisciplinary collection challenges traditional understandings of mental health by emphasising the perspective of mental health service users

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