Table of Contents

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.

About the Author

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.