Cultures Of Psychiatry And Mental Health Care In Postwar Britain And The Netherlands

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900441858X
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultures of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in Postwar Britain and The Netherlands written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anti-psychiatry' is a movement more sloganized than analysed. Until now it has been associated in the English-speaking world primarily with R.D. Laing and a coterie of his associates, and a radical critique not just of psychiatric hospitalization but of the very premises of psychiatry itself and the basic institutions of society, especially the family. But are these notions accurate, or rather distorted images, created by Laing himself or by the media? In this book, which has emerged out of an Anglo-Dutch conference held in June 1997, the realities of critical psychiatry are explored, using comparisons and contrasts between the British and the Dutch experiences as a probe. There were, it turns out, various distinct anti-psychiatries - indeed, hardly anybody actually used that label about themselves - and they played a role in the reform no less than the rejection of regular psychiatry.

Author : Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9053567992
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychiatric Cultures Compared written by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comparative global history of mental health care in the twentieth century remains relatively uncharted territory. Psychiatric Cultures Compared offers an overview of various national psychiatric cultures, comparing, for example, advances in Dutch psychiatry with developments abroad. Wide-ranging essays cover analyses of the field of psychiatric nursing, the changing use of psychotropic medicine, the emergence of in- and outpatient mental health sectors, the rise of the anti-psychiatry movement, and a critical look at modern day deinstitutionalization.

Author : Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042006621
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pragmatic Idealism written by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the contents: Moral facts and objective values (Timo Airaksinen). - Values and reasons (Leonardo Rodriguez Dupla). - Rescher on evolution and the intelligibility of nature (George Gale). - The nature of philosophy (John Kekes). - Individual and other-person morality: a plea for an emotional response to ethical problems (Peter Machamer). - Was Spinoza a person? (Raymond Martin).

Author : James E. Moran
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773576541
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mental Health and Canadian Society written by James E. Moran and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006-08-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mental Health and Canadian Society leading researchers challenge generalisations about the mentally ill and the history of mental health in Canada. Considering the period from colonialism to the present, they examine such issues as the rise of the insanity plea, the Victorian asylum as a tourist attraction, the treatment of First Nations people in western mental hospitals, and post-World War II psychiatric research into LSD.

Author : Despo Kritsotaki
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319453602
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deinstitutionalisation and After written by Despo Kritsotaki and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book relates the history of post-war psychiatry, focusing on deinstitutionalisation, namely the shift from asylum to community in the second part of the twentieth century. After the Second World War, psychiatry and mental health care were reshaped by deinstitutionalisation. But what exactly was involved in this process? What were the origins of deinstitutionalisation and what did it mean to those who experienced it? What were the ramifications, both positive and negative, of such a fundamental shift in psychiatric care? Post-War Psychiatry in the Western World: Deinstitutionalisation and After seeks to answer these questions by exploring this momentous change in mental health care from 1945 to the present in a wide range of geographical settings. The book articulates a nuanced account of the history of deinstitutionalisation, highlighting the constraints and inconsistencies inherent in treating the mentally ill outside of the asylum, while seeking to inform current debates about how to help the most vulnerable members of society.

Author : Filiz Meseci Giorgetti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429680570
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture and Education written by Filiz Meseci Giorgetti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the fascinating and complex interactions between the ways that culture and education operate within and across societies. In some cases, education is imagined as an integrated part of general cultural phenomena; in others, educational interventions become the means for transforming the cultural circumstances of different populations. The contributors to this volume show how certain educational practices produce new cultural and professional knowledge; discuss the impacts of initially foreign educational ideas and institutions on established cultural institutions in very different societies; and explore the impacts of modernity and modern educational ideas on more traditional gendered and religious practices and communities. The book also provided striking examples of when these impacts were not benign. Increasingly powerful twentieth-century governments attempted to use education and schools to produce new, reformed citizens suitable for their newly created colonial, national, socialist, and fascist states. The expectation was that cultural and social transformation might be engineered, in major part, through schooling. This book was originally published as a special issue of Paedagogica Historica.

Author : Jill Kirby
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526123312
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feeling the strain written by Jill Kirby and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the popular discourse of nerves and stress, this book provides a historical account of how ordinary Britons understood, explained and coped with the pressures and strains of daily life during the twentieth century. It traces the popular, vernacular discourse of stress, illuminating not just how stress was known, but the ways in which that knowledge was produced. Taking a cultural approach, the book focuses on contemporary popular understandings, revealing continuity of ideas about work, mental health, status, gender and individual weakness, as well as the changing socio-economic contexts that enabled stress to become a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the century. With accounts from sufferers, families and colleagues it also offers insight into self-help literature, the meanings of work and changing dynamics of domestic life, delivering a complementary perspective to medical histories of stress.

Author : Petteri Pietikäinen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042977933X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Class and Mental Illness in Northern Europe written by Petteri Pietikäinen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between social class and mental illness in Northern Europe during the 20th century. Contributors explore the socioeconomic status of mental patients, the possible influence of social class on the diagnoses and treatment they received in psychiatric institutions, and how social class affected the ways in which the problems of minorities, children and various ‘deviants’ and ‘misfits’ were evaluated and managed by mental health professionals. The basic message of the book is that, even in developing welfare states founded on social equality, social class has been a significant factor that has affected mental health in many different ways – and still does.

Author : Vicky Long
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526103265
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Destigmatising mental illness? written by Vicky Long and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical study of mental healthcare workers’ efforts to educate the public challenges the supposition that public prejudice generates the stigma of mental illness. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book argues that psychiatrists, nurses and social workers generated representations of mental illness which reflected their professional aspirations, economic motivations and perceptions of the public. Sharing in the stigma of their patients, healthcare workers sought to enhance the prestige of their professions by focussing upon the ability of psychiatry to effectively treat acute cases of mental disturbance. As a consequence, healthcare workers inadvertently reinforced the stigma attached to serious and enduring mental distress. This book makes a major contribution to the history of mental healthcare, and critiques current campaigns which seek to end mental health discrimination for failing to address the political, economic and social factors which fuel discrimination. It will appeal to academics, students, healthcare practitioners and service users.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004333401
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultures of Neurasthenia written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neurasthenia, meaning nerve weakness, was ‘invented’ in the United States as a disorder of modernity, caused by the fast pace of urban life. Soon after, from the early 1880s onwards, this modern disease crossed the Atlantic. Neurasthenia became much less ‘popular’ in Britain or the Netherlands than in Germany. Neurasthenia’s heyday continued into the first decade of the twentieth century. The label referred to conditions similar to those currently labelled as chronic fatigue syndrome. Why this rise and fall of neurasthenia, and why these differences in popularity This book, which emerged out of an Anglo-Dutch-German conference held in June 2000, explores neurasthenia’s many-sided history from a comparative perspective.