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The social worlds of psychiatric and ex-psychiatric patients in Belfast
- Author:
- PRIOR Lindsay
- Publisher:
- Queen's University. Health and Health Care Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 64p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
Sociological study designed to compare the everyday experiences of long term psychiatric in-patients with those of ex-patients living in the community.
The social organization of mental illness
- Author:
- PRIOR Lindsay
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 239p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Analyses the changing definitions of mental illness and the way in which they have been reflected in the organisation of health and social services. Shows how this both reflects and constitutes the nature of mental illness. Demonstrates how sociological insights into the world of psychiatric medicine can be gained from an examination of the multiple ways in which disorders have been represented in, and through, the work of psychiatric professionals. Focuses on the transition from hospital to community centred services.