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Mental health services and community care : a critical history /

This inter-disciplinary study considers the past, present and future of mental health services and community care. From the origins of provision as we know it in the 1960s, it sets out the political, economic and bureaucratic factors behind recent crises and considers what the founding principles of...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cummins, Ian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol ; Chicago, IL : Policy Press, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover
  • Mental Health Services and Community Care: A Critical History
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Epigraph
  • Table of contents
  • About the author
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Community care: a brief overview
  • Introduction
  • The rise of the asylum
  • Anti-psychiatry
  • Psychiatry and anti-psychiatry
  • Conclusion
  • 3 The asylum and the community
  • Introduction
  • Total institutions
  • Asylum
  • Community
  • In the city: geographies of exclusion
  • Conclusion
  • 4 Inquiries
  • Introduction
  • Inquiry culture
  • Moral panics
  • Christopher Clunis
  • The Inquiry
  • Inquiries in context
  • National Confidential Inquiry
  • Conclusion
  • 5 Deinstitutionalisation and the penal state
  • Introduction
  • The problem of definition
  • The Penrose Hypothesis
  • The rise of the penal state
  • Mental disorder and offending
  • Autonomy
  • Punishment
  • Policing and mental illness
  • The criminalisation of mental illness hypothesis
  • Conclusion
  • 6 Reform or revolution? Mental health legislation and the development of community care
  • Introduction
  • Mental health legislation before the 1983 MHA
  • The 1959 Mental Health Act
  • The 1983 Mental Health Act
  • Supervised CTOs
  • Mental health law
  • Gostin and mental health: a human rights approach
  • Conclusion
  • 7 International perspectives
  • Introduction
  • Basaglia: a psychiatric revolutionary
  • Basaglia's Law: Law 180
  • Deinstitutionalisation in the US
  • Assertive outpatient treatment and Kendra's Law
  • A mental health scandal in South Africa
  • Conclusion
  • 8 Neoliberalism, advanced marginality and mental health
  • Introduction
  • Advanced marginality
  • The nature of the welfare state
  • Austerity
  • The Mental Health Act
  • Policing and mental health
  • The use of Section 136
  • Conclusion
  • 9 Conclusion
  • References
  • Index