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This book analyses changing definitions of mental illness and the way in which they have been reflected in the organization of health care. Lindsay Prior looks at the provision of medical and social services for people with serious psychiatric disorders, and shows how this both reflects and constitutes the nature of mental illness.
He demonstrates how sociological insights into the world of psychiatric medicine can be gained from an examination of the multiple ways in which disorders have been represented in, and through, the work of psychiatric professionals.
Focusing on the transition from hospital- to community-centred services, the most important and far-reaching of all the organizational changes that have affected twentieth-century psychiatry, Prior outlines the rationales which lie behind this shift in emphasis, as well as other transformations in mental health service provision.
In the light of major changes in the theory and practice of key groups of psychiatric professionals, including psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, occupational therapists and psychologists, Prior discusses the consequences both for the providers and the recipients of psychiatric care. This accessible and stimulating study will be of interest to both academics and professionals in the fields of the sociology of health and illness, social policy, psychology and health care.
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Community mental health services, Mentally ill, Psychiatric hospital care, Philosophy, Deinstitutionalization, Mental illness, Public opinion, Social psychiatry, Psychiatry, Psychiatrische patiënten, Psychiatrie sociale, Maladies mentales, Santé mentale, Services communautaires de, Psychiatric Hospitals, Malades mentaux, Opinion publique, Hôpitaux psychiatriques, Soins, Psychiatrie, Geestelijke gezondheidszorg, Organization & administration, Rehabilitation, Désinstitutionnalisation, Sozialpsychiatrie, Ziekenhuizen, Social Psychology, Services communautaires de santé mentale, Mental Disorders, Philosophie, Psychology, social, Hospitals, psychiatric--organization & administration, Mental disorders--rehabilitation, Community mental health services--organization & administration, Psychiatry--philosophy, Mental illness--public opinion, Psychiatric hospital care--philosophy, Community mental health services--philosophy, Mentally ill--deinstitutionalization, Rc455 .p735 1993, Wm 29.1 p958s 1993, 362.20941, 362.2Showing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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The social organization of mental illness
1993, Sage Publications
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0803984995 9780803984998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [200]-215) and index.
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