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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Neil Armstrong, Neil (University of Exeter Armstrong, Armstrong Neil
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 07.12.2023
• EAN: 9780367722937
• ISBN: 978-0-367-72293-7
• Pagine: 180
• Categorie: Saggistica > Psicologia, esoterismo, spiritualità, antroposofia > Psicologia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; MEDICAL / Mental Health, LAW / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Research & Methodology, Mental health services, Psychological methodology, Mental Health Law