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Rogers, Anne and Pilgrim, David. A Sociology of Mental Health And Illness, Fourth Edition. UK: McGraw-Hill Education, 2010.

A Sociology of Mental Health And Illness, Fourth Edition

Authors: Anne Rogers and David Pilgrim

Published:  2010

ISBN: 9780335240371 0335236650
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  • Front cover
  • Half title page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface to the fourth edition
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Perspectives on mental health and illness
  • Chapter overview
  • The perspectives outwith sociology
  • Psychiatry
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Psychology
  • The statistical notion
  • The ideal notion
  • The presence of specific behaviours
  • Distorted cognitions
  • The legal framework
  • Conclusion about the perspectives outwith sociology
  • The perspectives within sociology
  • Social causation
  • Critical theory
  • Social constructivism
  • Social realism
  • Border disputes
  • 2 Stigma revisited and lay representations of mental health problems
  • Chapter overview
  • Lay views of psychological differences and attributions of stigma
  • Stereotyping and stigma
  • Intelligibility
  • Competence and credibility
  • Does labelling matter?
  • The role of the mass media
  • Psychiatry and stigma
  • Social exclusion and discrimination
  • Social capital, social disability and social exclusion
  • Discussion
  • 3 Social class and mental health
  • Chapter overview
  • The general relationship between social class and health status
  • The relationship between social class and diagnosed mental illness
  • Social class, social capital and neighbourhood
  • The relationship between poverty and mental health status
  • Labour market disadvantage and mental health
  • Housing and mental health
  • Social class and mental health professionalism
  • Lay views about mental health and social class
  • Discussion
  • 4 Women and men
  • Chapter overview
  • The over-representation of women in psychiatric diagnosis
  • Does society cause excessive female mental illness?
  • Vulnerability factors
  • Provoking agents
  • Symptom-formation factors
  • Is female over-representation a measurement artefact?
  • Gendered differences in help-seeking behaviour
  • Are women labelled as mentally ill more often than men?
  • The effects of labelling secondary deviance – women and minor tranquillizers
  • Men, dangerousness and mental health services
  • Gender and sexuality
  • Discussion
  • 5 Race and ethnicity
  • Chapter overview
  • Theoretical presuppositions and approaches to race and ethnicity
  • 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
  • Asian women and the somatization thesis
  • Irish people and psychiatry
  • Discussion
  • 6 Age and ageing
  • Chapter overview
  • Age and other social variables
  • Emotions and primary socialization
  • Sociology, childhood and adversity
  • Childhood sexual abuse and mental health problems
  • Social competence in adulthood
  • Dementia and depression in older people
  • Discussion
  • 7 Mental health work and professions
  • Chapter overview
  • Theoretical frameworks in the sociology of the professions
  • The neo-Durkheimian framework
  • The neo-Weberian framework
  • Social closure
  • Professional dominance
  • The neo-Marxian framework
  • Eclecticism and post-structuralism
  • Mental health professionals and other social actors
  • Sociology and the mental health professions
  • Eclecticism and post-structuralism
  • The neo-Weberian approach
  • Symbolic interactionism
  • The influence of the sociology of deviance
  • The influence of the sociology of knowledge
  • The influence of feminist sociology
  • The impact of legislative arrangements and service redesign
  • The blurring of lay and professional work
  • The survival of psychiatry?
  • Discussion
  • 8 The treatment of people with mental health problems
  • Chapter overview
  • Therapeutics
  • A brief social history of psychiatric treatment
  • A critical appraisal of psychiatric treatment
  • Why have physical treatments tended to predominate?
  • Minor tranquillizers
  • Antipsychotics
  • Antidepressants
  • The expanded ambitions of the drug companies
  • Psychological therapies
  • Why is there a problem of legitimacy about the effectiveness of psychiatric treatment?
  • The moral sense of ‘treatment’
  • Who is psychiatry’s client?
  • The question of informed choice
  • Insight
  • The morality of others
  • Comprehensive and comprehensible information
  • Coercion
  • Specifiable actions
  • Redefining the moral bases of treatment – patient experience and recovery
  • The social distribution of treatment
  • The impact of evidence-based practice on treatment
  • Disputed evidence about ECT
  • Users’ views as evidence in service research
  • Tackling social exclusion as a focus of treatment
  • Governmentality and therapy
  • The changing places of therapeutics
  • Discussion
  • 9 The organization of mental health work
  • Chapter overview
  • The sociology of the hospital
  • The rise of the asylum and its legacy
  • The crisis of the asylum
  • Responses to the crisis
  • The ‘pharmacological revolution’
  • Changes in the organization of medicine: a shift to acute problems and primary care
  • Community care and re-institutionalization
  • Primary care and psychological therapies: a new focus of mental health work
  • Discussion
  • 10 Psychiatry and legal control
  • Chapter overview
  • Legal versus medical control of madness
  • Mentally disordered offenders
  • The problematic status of personality disorder
  • Psychiatrization, criminalization and risk management
  • The case of ‘dangerous and severe personality disorder’
  • Socio-legal aspects of compulsion
  • The globalization of compulsion
  • Professional interests and mental health policy reforms
  • Dangerousness
  • Violence and mental disorder
  • Suicide and mental disorder
  • Impact on patients of their risky image
  • Discussion
  • 11 Users of mental health services
  • Chapter overview
  • The diffuse concept of service use
  • Relatives or ‘signi.cant others’
  • Users as patients
  • The disregarding by researchers of those users’ views that do not coincide with the views of mental health professionals
  • The notion that psychiatric patients are continually irrational and so incapable of giving a valid view
  • Patients and relatives are assumed to share the same perspective, and where they do not, the views of the former are disregarded by researchers
  • Framing patient views in terms which suit professionals
  • A shift to incorporate users’ perspectives
  • Users as consumers
  • Literature on psychiatric patient satisfaction and dissatisfaction
  • Users as survivors
  • The phenomenology of surviving the psychiatric system
  • Survivors as a type of new social movement
  • Users as providers
  • The tension between advising, providing and campaigning
  • Discussion
  • 12 Public mental health and the pursuit of happiness
  • Chapter overview
  • Introduction
  • Preventing mental disorder and promoting mental health
  • Types of prevention
  • The consequences of desegregation
  • The consequences of a wider view of mental ill health
  • The new emphasis on well-being and happiness
  • The interaction of physical and mental health
  • Health, illness and societal norms
  • Implications for public mental health
  • References
  • Index