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Mental disorders: challenging prejudice
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 10p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Introduction to a series of booklets describing a range of mental health problems, aiming to make people more understanding of what these are and of the people who suffer from them.
Reasoning about madness
- Author:
- WING J.K
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year:
- 1978
- Pagination:
- 265p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
An uneasy dwelling: the story of the Philadelphia Association community houses
- Author:
- GORDON Paul
- Publisher:
- PCCS Books
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Place of publication:
- Ross-on-Wye
The Philadelphia Association has been providing places of asylum for over 40 years. Hundreds of men and women, whether formally designated ‘mentally ill’, or experiencing serious emotional distress, have entered a PA community house and been allowed to “go through whatever they have to go through”, in their own time and in their own way, free from the interventions of psychiatry or family. Despite the longevity and the radically different nature of the project, little has been written about the work. This book is an attempt to correct that. It is in part a history of the houses but also an account of how the houses work today and an exploration of their underpinning ethos. The most famous of the houses was the first, Kingsley Hall, which opened in 1965 and which has come to have an almost iconic status in the world of what has come to be called critical psychiatry. More than 15 houses have been run under PA auspices. In the past the PA was most closely identified with one of its founders, the highly public figure RD Laing. This book is an attempt to explain more about the PA and reveal misperceptions.
The mind: a user's guide
- Author:
- PERSAUD Raj
- Publisher:
- Bantam Press
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 500p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Mind: A User’s Guide aims to inform and empower anyone who has experience of a mental health problem, or who has an interest in safeguarding or improving their own emotional well-being. Edited by Dr Raj Persaud, with contributions from distinguished experts, this guide has been published in collaboration with the Royal College of Psychiatrists. It provides accessible, jargon-free information on the latest research into brain and mind sciences, and gives distinctive descriptions of behaviour, feelings and thoughts relating to a wide variety of conditions In addition to clarifying and helping us to understand symptoms, treatments and therapies, The Mind also challenges the stigma so often associated with mental health issues, and the damaging myths and misconceptions that may prevent people from seeking professional help.
Journeys through mental illness: clients' experiences and understandings of mental disorders
- Author:
- FOSTER Juliet L.H.
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 218p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
At a time when service users' perspectives are increasingly recognized in healthcare, this seminal book highlights the importance of clients' perceptions of all aspects of mental illness. It examines the implications of these understandings, especially in relation to clients' relationships with services.
Mental health atlas 2005
- Author:
- WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
- Publisher:
- World Health Organization
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 540p.
- Place of publication:
- Geneva
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
The World Health Organization Mental Health Atlas 2005 shows that global resources for people suffering from mental and neurological disorders are grossly insufficient to address the growing burden of mental health needs, and are unequally distributed around the world. The 2005 edition is an update of the first Mental Health Atlas 2001, and contains the most complete global data available on mental health resources. It shows no substantial change in global mental health resources since 2001, while there continue to be marked and growing differences in availability between high- and low-income countries. For example, while the survey of 192 countries does show a slight increase in the total number of psychiatrists from 3.96 to 4.15 per 100 000 people worldwide, distribution across regions ranges from 9.8 in Europe to just 0.04 in Africa. This disparity has increased since 2001. The Atlas notes that many countries continue to spend only a very small proportion of their total health budget on mental health. One fifth of the more than 100 countries supplying figures to the survey spend less than 1% of their health budget on mental health. This is in stark contrast to WHO's estimate that 13% of all disease burden is caused by the wide range of neuro-psychiatric disorders.
Psychiatry and the human condition
- Author:
- CHARLTON Bruce
- Publisher:
- Radcliffe Medical Press
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 263p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
Presents an alternative approach to psychiatric illness and its treatment. Psychiatry has the potential to help. In particular psychotropic drugs could enable more people to lead lives that are creative and fulfilled. But current classifications and treatments derive from a century old framework. Argues that obsolete categories of diseases and drugs should be scrapped, suggesting a new framework of understanding suggesting that clinical management should focus on the treatment of biologically valid symptoms and signs, and include a much larger role for self treatment.
Depression
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 10p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Part of a series of booklets describing a range of mental health problems, aiming to make people more understanding of what these are and of the people who suffer from them. This pamphlet looks at depression.
Schizophrenia
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 10p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Part of a series of booklets describing a range of mental health problems, aiming to make people more understanding of what these are and of the people who suffer from them. This pamphlet looks at Schizophrenia.
Anxiety
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 10p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Part of a series of booklets describing a range of mental health problems, aiming to make people more understanding of what these are and of the people who suffer from them. This pamphlet looks at anxiety.