Rethinking the sociology of mental health / Joan Busfield.

By:

Busfield, Joan

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford : Blackwell, 2000.Description: 184p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780631221852 (pbk.) :
0631221859 (pbk)

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DDC classification:

362.2 BUS

LOC classification:

RA790.5

Contents:

Summary: This volume consists of a selection of papers introducing new ways of thinking sociologically about the terrain of mental health.

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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: Rethinking thesociology of mental health.2. Reason, emotion and embodiment:\'mental\' health a contradiction in terms?3. Disability, impairment or illness? The relevance of the social model of disability to the study of mental disorder. 4. \'It\'s a small world\':mental health policy under welfare capitalism since 1945. 5. Psychiatric diagnosis under conditions of uncertainty: personality disorder, science and professional legitmacy. 6. A phenomenology of fear: Merleau-Ponty and agoraphobic life-worlds.7. Identifying delusional discourse: issues of rationality, reallity and power. 8. Civil commitment due to mental illness and dangerousness: the union of law and psychiatry within a treatment-control system. 9. Rethinking professional perogative: managed mental health care providers.

This volume consists of a selection of papers introducing new ways of thinking sociologically about the terrain of mental health.