Pure Madness
How Fear Drives the Mental Health System
Seiten
2002
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-36980-0 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-36980-0 (ISBN)
Pure Madness explores the tensions between themes of care and control in our mental health policy. Building each chapter around personal interviews, the author looks at the political, medical, legal and community viewpoints.
Public alarm for random attacks by mentally ill people is at an all-time high. The brutal killing of Jill Dando, the TV personality, and the assault on George Harrison, the former Beatle, are among the cases which have undermined confidence in the mental health service. Community care is widely seen as a failed policy that has left too many people walking the streets, posing a risk to themselves and a threat to others. The Government has responded with a programme of change billed as the biggest reform in forty years, but will it achieve the 'safe, sound, supportive' service as promised?
For Pure Madness, Jeremy Laurance travelled across the country observing the care provided to mentally ill people in Britain today. Based on interviews, visits and case histories, his book reveals a service driven by fear.
Public alarm for random attacks by mentally ill people is at an all-time high. The brutal killing of Jill Dando, the TV personality, and the assault on George Harrison, the former Beatle, are among the cases which have undermined confidence in the mental health service. Community care is widely seen as a failed policy that has left too many people walking the streets, posing a risk to themselves and a threat to others. The Government has responded with a programme of change billed as the biggest reform in forty years, but will it achieve the 'safe, sound, supportive' service as promised?
For Pure Madness, Jeremy Laurance travelled across the country observing the care provided to mentally ill people in Britain today. Based on interviews, visits and case histories, his book reveals a service driven by fear.
Laurance, Jeremy
Introduction 1. The State We're In 2. How We Got Here 3. Mad Axemen and the Growth of Coercion 4. A New Law for the 21st Century 5. The Clamour for Consumer Control 6. Taking Care to the Community 7. Taking Care to the Home 8. Taking Care to the Street 9. Life Stories 10. Carers: The Missing Link 11. The New Meaning of Community Care
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.11.2002 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 410 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen | |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
ISBN-10 | 0-415-36980-0 / 0415369800 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-36980-0 / 9780415369800 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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