Description
Book SynopsisExamines mental healthcare workersâ efforts to educate the public between 1870 and 1970 -- .
Trade Review‘It provides some unique perspectives that, if embraced by mental health professionals and campaigners today, could significantly improve the chance of destigmatizing the image of individuals with severe and long-term mental ill health.’
Verusca Calabria, Nottingham Trent University, H-Disability
‘The strength of the book is the presentation of the plurality of discourses generated by different groups, both from within and outside the field of mental healthcare. It provides some unique perspectives that, if embraced by mental health professionals and campaigners today, could significantly improve the chance of destigmatizing the image of individuals with severe and long-term mental ill health.’
Verusca Calabria, Nottingham Trent University, H-Disability, May 2017
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Psychiatrists and their patients: mirrored narratives of sanity and madness
2. Insecure professionals and the public
3. Challenging the stigma of mental illness through new therapeutic approaches
4. Mad, bad and dangerous to know? Men, women and mental illness
5. ‘The personal touch’: voluntarism, the public and mental illness
6. ‘The public must be wooed and enticed with entertainment and buns’: healthcare professionals and the BBC
Conclusion
Brief timeline
Bibliography
Index
