Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Praise Page
• Contents
• Preface
• 1 Perspectives on mental health and illness
  • Clinical perspectives
    • Psychiatry
    • Psychoanalysis
    • Psychology
    • The statistical notion
    • The ideal notion
    • The presence of specific behaviours
    • Distorted cognitions
  • Perspectives within sociology
    • Social causation
    • Interpretive sociology
    • Social constructivism
  • Sociological and clinical perspectives compared
  • Discussion
• 2 People with mental health problems and users of services
  • The diffuse concept of service use
  • Relatives or ‘significant others’
  • Users as patients
    • Privileging professional over user views in research
    • The assumption that psychiatric patients are continually irrational
    • Patients and relatives are assumed to share the same perspective
    • Framing patient views to suit those of professionals
  • Coopting users and user research?
  • Users as consumers
  • Users as survivors and activists
    • The phenomenology of surviving the psychiatric system
  • Survivors as a new social movement
  • Users as providers
  • The tension between advising, providing and campaigning
  • Discussion
• 3 Social stratification and mental health
  • The relationship between social class and diagnosed mental illness
  • Social capital and mental health
  • The relationship between poverty and mental health
    • Labour market disadvantage
    • Housing
  • Social class and mental health professionalism
  • Lay views about mental health and social class
  • Discussion
• 4 Sex, gender and mental health
  • The over-representation of women in psychiatric diagnosis
  • Does society cause excessive female mental illness?
  • Is female over-representation a measurement artefact?
    • Sex differences in help-seeking behaviour
  • Are women labelled as mentally ill more often than men?
    • Women, minor tranquillizers and antidepressants
    • Men, distress, dangerousness and mental health services
  • Gender and sexuality
    • The psychiatric response to gender non-conformity
  • Discussion
• 5 Race, ethnicity and mental health
  • Theoretical presuppositions about race
  • Race and health
  • The epidemiology of mental health, race and ethnicity
  • Methodological cautions about findings
    • Type of service contact
    • Disproportionate coercion
  • Black people’s conduct and attributions of madness: some summary points
    • Labelling reflects actual incidence
    • Misdiagnosis
    • Racialized psychiatric constructs
  • South Asian women and the somatization thesis
  • Migration and mental health
  • Discussion
• 6 Birth, childhood and adolescence
  • The life course and mental health
  • Birth: mental health challenges at the start of life
  • Childhood and mental health
  • Adversity in childhood
  • Childhood sexual abuse
  • Adolescence, social media and mental health
  • The challenges of entering adulthood
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion
• 7 Ageing and older people
  • The ‘Third Age’: retirement and mental well-being
  • Help-seeking and service provision for older people
  • The ‘Fourth Age’: dementia, depression and suicide
    • Dementia
    • Depression and suicide
  • A ‘Fifth Age’?: making a hundred
  • Discussion
• 8 The organization of mental health work
  • The rise of the asylum and its legacy
  • The ‘pharmacological revolution’ and its critics
  • The role of economic determinism
  • Changes in the organization and place of provision
    • Digital interventions and mutual support
  • Discussion
• 9 Mental health work and its professions
  • Sociological perspectives on mental health work
    • The neo-Durkheimian framework
    • The neo-Weberian framework
    • The neo-Marxian framework
    • Sociological eclecticism
  • Relevant sociological contributions about deviance and knowledge
  • Legal governance and inter-professional relationships
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion
• 10 The treatment of people with mental health problems
  • A brief social history of psychiatric treatment
    • Can ‘personality disorder’ be treated?
  • A critical appraisal of psychiatric treatment
    • Why have physical treatments predominated?
    • Antipsychotics
    • Antidepressants
    • ‘Big Pharma’: its role and critics
    • Psychological therapies
    • Disputes about ECT
  • Alternative and complementary therapies
    • Precarious treatment authority
  • The moral sense of ‘treatment’
    • Moral ambiguities: informed consent and other matters for practitioners
  • The social distribution of treatment
  • Discussion
• 11 Mental health legislation
  • Legal versus medical control of madness
    • Britain as a case study
    • Socio-legal aspects of compulsion
  • The globalization of compulsion and human rights legislation
  • Professional involvement in legalism
  • Violence and mental disorder
    • Impact on patients of their risky image
  • Discussion
• 12 Prisons and the policing of mental disorder
  • Secure mental health services
    • Patients as prisoners or prisoners as patients?
  • Mental health care in prisons
    • Medication, therapeutic communities and other approaches
  • Police officers as street-level bureaucrats
  • Discussion
• 13 Stigma and recovery
  • Lay views of psychological difference
  • Stereotyping and stigma
    • The meta-rule of intelligibility and social accountability
    • Suicide and contagious stigma
  • The ‘backbone of stigma’
    • Competence and credibility
  • Labelling theory and its modification
    • The role of the mass media
  • Social exclusion
    • Do professionals perpetuate or ameliorate stigma?
  • Recovery
  • Discussion
• 14 Preventing mental disorder and promoting mental health
  • Prevention and promotion
    • Types of prevention
  • Desegregation and considerations of place and mental health
    • Urban life as a psycho-toxic space?
  • Well-being and happiness
  • The interaction of physical and mental health
  • Health, illness and societal norms
  • Discussion
• References
• Index
• Backcover

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