Mental Health Matters is an innovative, interdisciplinary collection of texts which challenge traditional understandings of mental health, emphasising the perspectives of mental health service-users. Combining classic writings about mental health practices and problems from psychiatry, sociology and psychology with specially commissioned new articles, it considers theories and debates in mental health and distress; the social and historical dimensions of mental health; involving users in mental health services and practically improving those services.
PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL DISTRESS: DEBATES AND
THEORIES.- Introduction.- Psychological Approaches to Mental Health and
Distress; R. Dallos.- A Psychiatric Perspective on Mental Distress; R.E.
Kendall.- 'Schizophrenia' Re-evaluated; M. Boyle.- Life Events Loss and
Depressive Disorders; G. Browne.- Transition and Loss; C. Murray.- Parkes
Women and Madness; P. Chesler.- The Cultural Context of Mental Distress; R.
Warner.- Labelling Mental Illness; T. Scheff.- On Being Sane in Insane
Places; D.L. Rosenhan.- Reversing Deviance; R. Gomm.- Some Problematic
Aspects of Dementia; T. Kitwood.- The Families' Experience; D. Jones.- PART
TWO: MENTAL HEALTH POLICY, SOCIAL INEQUALITY AND CIVIL RIGHTS.- Introduction
Mental Health and Inequality; R. Gomm.- George III and Changing Views of
Madness; L. Jones.- Professionals, the State and the Development of Mental
Health Policy; J. Busfield.- Beyond the Asylum; J. Leff.- Scare in the
Community: Britain in Moral Panic; M. Muijen.- Media Images of Mental
Distress; G. Philo, J. Secker, S. Platt, L. Henderson, G. McLaughlin and J.
Burnside.- Towards Understanding Suicide; S. Taylor and A. Gilmour.- Two
Notions of Risk in Mental Health Debates; D. Pilgrim and A. Rogers.- The
History of Tranquilliser Use; J. Gabe.- The Black Experience of Mental Health
Law; D. Browne.- The Need to Change Mental Health Law; N. Eastman.- PART
THREE: INVOLVING USERS IN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES.- Introduction.- The History
of the User Movement in the UK; P. Campbell.- The Lives of 'Users' - P.
Barham and R. Hayward.- Structuring Effective User Involvement; G. Maza.-
Mental Health Services that Empower Women; J. Williams and G. Watson.- Asian
Women Speak Out; S. Fenton and A. Sadiq.- Focusing on Health: Focus Groups
for Consulting About Health Needs; M. Tang and C. Cunninghame.- What Users
Want from Crisis Services; L. Sayce, Y. Christie, M. Slade and A. Cobb.- PART
FOUR: EXAMINING PRACTICE.- Introduction.- Using Research to Change Practice;
G. Parry.- Reviewing Advances in Psychiatry; R. Ramsay and T. Fahy.-
Normalising Professional Skills; D. Brandon.- Developing a Bridge to Women's
Social Action; S. Holland.- Working Psychotherapeutically with Adult
Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse; F. Gardner.- Treating Anorexia Nervosa; J.
Russell.- Rehabilitating Voice-Hearers; M. Romme.- Communicating as if Your
Life Depended on It; J. Killick.- Practising Cultural Psychiatry; S.
Acharyya.- Maintaining an Emergency Service; P. Tyrer.- Working with Refugees
and Survivors of Torture; J. Shackman and J. Reynolds.- Doing Being Human; T.
Heller.
ROGER GOMM was previously Lecturer in Health and Social Welfare at the Open University, UK. Tom Heller is Senior Lecturer in Health Studies at the Faculty of Health and Social Care at The Open University, UK. Rosemary Muston is Course Manager in the Faculty of Health and Social Care at The Open University, UK.
