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Psychiatric drug promotion and the politics of neoliberalism
- Author:
- MONCRIEFF Joanna
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 188(4), April 2006, pp.301-302.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The pharmaceutical industry has popularised the idea that many problems are caused by imbalances in brain chemicals. This message helps to further the aims of neoliberal economic and social policies by breeding feelings of inadequacy and anxiety. These feelings in turn drive increasing consumption, encourage people to accept more pressured working conditions and inhibit social and political responses.
Housing and mental health: policy paper
- Author:
- MIND
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 11p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Policy document making recommendations to central and local government on the housing and support needs of mentally ill people living in the community.
Responding to men in crisis: masculinities, distress and the postmodern landscape
- Author:
- TAYLOR Brian
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 283p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Increasing rates of male suicide have been well documented, as have the problems of mental health provision for some minority male groups; however, the position of men in general within the psychiatric system is complex. There are many contradictions and gendered assumptions in mental health policy and practice, for example conflating mental health illness with dangerousness. This book is based on new research looking at gendered assumptions about rationality and men's mental health. It looks at postmodern theory in relation to masculinities and madness, and discusses key contemporary debates in political uses of risk, dangerousness and so on. The author relates this to a discussion of current policy and practice responses to men within the mental health system.
Mental health policy and the politics of mental health: a three part tier analytical framework
- Authors:
- PILGRIM David, ROGERS Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 27(1), January 1999, pp.13-24.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This article offers a broad unifying analytical framework which includes this range and variety while bringing some order into a field which can overwhelm individual scholars. The framework has three tiers: macro, meso and micro. These refer respectively to global and transhistorical factors; national and cultural factors; and local and personal factors. A case study is outlined (mental health, violence and coercion) to illustrate the utility of the framework. Its advantages and limits are then discussed in relation to interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity.
No vote no say
- Author:
- CERVI Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.6.96, 1996, p.21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Asks whether the government has introduced adequate measures to make it easier for mental health patients to vote.
Mission impossible
- Author:
- FAULKNER Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.9.94, 1994, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
According to a new enquiry report from the Mental Health Foundation government policy is undermining community care for people with severe mental health illness. The inquiry team, led by Sir William Utting found services to be confused, fragmented, under-resourced, and all too frequently failed to meet the needs of their clients. The conclusions of the report are summarised and the key recommendations are outlined.
Waiting for community care: implications of Government policy for 1991
- Author:
- SAYCE Liz
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 42p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
MIND's response to the White Paper and its affect on mentally ill people. Suggests a policy framework which directs developments towards specific goals, including taking into account consumer views, local mental health services in each area with consistent national standards, and the pursuit of change through a major resource transfer from institutional to community based services.
Care in the community for people with schizophrenia?
- Author:
- COTTRELL Lesley
- Journal article citation:
- Applied Community Studies, 3(1), 1996, pp.15-34.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
Social integration into the community is one of the main aims of community care policies for people with mental health problems. Increasingly, the government has stressed the role of 'the community' and the social networks therein in achieving its policy goals. Yet, for people with schizophrenia, this goal is called into question by literature linking social isolation to their condition and by studies of the social situations of those discharged to the community. This paper explores the apparent disjunction by examining some of the outcomes of policy implementation before focusing on a study concerned with the social integration into the community of people with schizophrenia. Some findings of this study are discussed in relation to policy implementation for people with schizophrenia.