Mental Health Care and Social Policy

Phil Brown is Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at Brown University, USA.

Part 1: Historical and Conceptual Concerns 1. Madness and Segregative Control: The Rise of the Insane Asylum 2. The Enduring Asylum David Rothman 3. Cycles of Institutional Reform Part 2: The Changing Mental Health System 4. The De Facto US Mental Health Services System: A Public Health Perspective 5. Deinstitutionalization and Mental Health Services 6. General Hospital Psychiatry: Overview From a Sociological Perspective 7. Community Control or Control of the Community? The Case of the Community Mental Health Center 8. The Mental Patients’ Rights Movement, and Mental Health Institutional Change Part 3: Providers and Treatments 9. Professional Training and the Future of Psychiatry 10. Prediction in Psychiatry: An Example of Misplaced Confidence in Experts 11. Medical Dominance: Psychoactive Drugs and Mental Health Policy Thomas J. Scheff 12. Clinical Psychopharmacology in its Twentieth Year George E. Crane Part 4: Alternatives to Traditional Mental Health Services 13. Mental Hospitals and Alternative Care: Non-institutionalization as Potential Public Policy 14. Self-Help and Mental Health 15. Inside the Mental Patients’ Association16. Psychology of Women: Feminist Therapy 17. From Confinement to Community: The Radical Transformation of an Italian Mental Hospital 18. The Collective Approach to Psychiatric Practice in the People’s Republic of China.