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Informationen zum Autor ROGER GOMM was previously Lecturer in Health and Social Welfare at the Open University, UK. Tom Heller is Senior Lecturer in Health Studies at the Faculty of Health and Social Care at The Open University, UK. Rosemary Muston is Course Manager in the Faculty of Health and Social Care at The Open University, UK. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL DISTRESS: DEBATES AND THEORIES Introduction Psychological Approaches to Mental Health and Distress; R. Dallos A Psychiatric Perspective on Mental Distress; R.E. Kendall 'Schizophrenia' Re-evaluated; M. Boyle Life Events Loss and Depressive Disorders; G. Browne Transition and Loss; C. Murray Parkes Women and Madness; P. Chesler The Cultural Context of Mental Distress; R. Warner Labelling Mental Illness; T. Scheff On Being Sane in Insane Places; D.L. Rosenhan Reversing Deviance; R. Gomm Some Problematic Aspects of Dementia; T. Kitwood The Families' Experience; D. Jones PART TWO: MENTAL HEALTH POLICY, SOCIAL INEQUALITY AND CIVIL RIGHTS Introduction Mental Health and Inequality; R. Gomm George III and Changing Views of Madness; L. Jones Professionals, the State and the Development of Mental Health Policy; J. Busfield Beyond the Asylum; J. Leff Scare in the Community: Britain in Moral Panic; M. Muijen Media Images of Mental Distress; G. Philo, J. Secker, S. Platt, L. Henderson, G. McLaughlin and J. Burnside Towards Understanding Suicide; S. Taylor and A. Gilmour Two Notions of Risk in Mental Health Debates; D. Pilgrim and A. Rogers The History of Tranquilliser Use; J. Gabe The Black Experience of Mental Health Law; D. Browne The Need to Change Mental Health Law; N. Eastman PART THREE: INVOLVING USERS IN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES Introduction The History of the User Movement in the UK; P. Campbell The Lives of 'Users' P. Barham and R. Hayward Structuring Effective User Involvement; G. Maza Mental Health Services that Empower Women; J. Williams and G. Watson Asian Women Speak Out; S. Fenton and A. Sadiq Focusing on Health: Focus Groups for Consulting About Health Needs; M. Tang and C. Cunninghame What Users Want from Crisis Services; L. Sayce, Y. Christie, M. Slade and A. Cobb PART FOUR: EXAMINING PRACTICE Introduction Using Research to Change Practice; G. Parry Reviewing Advances in Psychiatry; R. Ramsay and T. Fahy Normalising Professional Skills; D. Brandon Developing a Bridge to Women's Social Action; S. Holland Working Psychotherapeutically with Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse; F. Gardner Treating Anorexia Nervosa; J. Russell Rehabilitating Voice-Hearers; M. Romme Communicating as if Your Life Depended on It; J. Killick Practising Cultural Psychiatry; S. Acharyya Maintaining an Emergency Service; P. Tyrer Working with Refugees and Survivors of Torture; J. Shackman and J. Reynolds Doing Being Human; T. Heller....
