Collaborative Ethnographic Working in Mental Health - Knowledge, Power and Hope in an Age of Bureaucratic Accountability

This book is an ethnographic exploration of mental healthcare, which uses both ethnographic research and personal co-ethnographic / co-authored narratives to show the experiences and limits of those bring treated for severe mental health issues, often in a hospital setting.

List of contents

1. Everybody Knows About Mental Health
2. What Does it Mean to Know About Mental Healthcare?
3. No Mental Healthcare Without Mental Healthcare Institutions
4. Bipolar: The Beautiful Opponent with Catriona Watson
5. Learning to be Ill, Learning to be Well
6. Untethered with Hugh Palmer
7. Us and Them: Why Nobody Wins with Rowan Jones
Conclusion

About the author

Neil Armstrong is a medical anthropologist. He is a Fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford and Research Associate at Kings College London, UK. He is also a former psychiatric patient.

Summary

This book is an ethnographic exploration of mental healthcare, which uses both ethnographic research and personal co-ethnographic / co-authored narratives to show the experiences and limits of those bring treated for severe mental health issues, often in a hospital setting.

Product details

• Authors: Neil Armstrong, Neil (University of Exeter Armstrong, Armstrong Neil
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.12.2023
• EAN: 9780367722937
• ISBN: 978-0-367-72293-7
• No. of pages: 180
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); MEDICAL / Mental Health, LAW / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Research & Methodology, Mental health services, Psychological methodology, Mental Health Law