Mental Health Matters

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.

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.