AuthorPilgrim, David
TitleKey concepts in mental health / David Pilgrim
Imprint London : SAGE, 2005
Descript x, 204 p. ; 21 cm

CONTENT

Mental health -- Psychiatric diagnosis -- Psychiatric epidemiology -- Functional and organic mental illnesses -- Madness -- Sadness -- Fear -- Personality disorders -- Substance misuse -- Learning disabiloty -- Causes and constructs -- Physical health -- Pleasure -- Creativity -- Lay views of mental health and illness -- Eating disorders -- Primary care -- Acute mental health services -- Forensic mental health services -- Service-user involvement -- Carers -- Mental health professionals -- Biological interventions -- Psychological interventions -- Financial aspects of mental health -- Mental health service quality -- Mental health policy -- Mental health promotion -- Segregation -- Coercion -- The 'myth of mental illness' -- Eugenics -- Corruption of care -- Malpractice -- Capacity and culpability -- 'Anti-psychiatry' -- Labelling theory -- Stigma -- Social exclusion -- Risks to and from people with mental health problems -- The mass media -- Suicide -- The mental health service users' movement -- Cross-cultural psychiatry -- Social class -- Race -- Gender -- Age and mental health -- The pharmaceutical industry -- Warfare


SUBJECT

  1. Mental health
  2. Mental health services

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