Destigmatising mental illness?: professional politics and public education in Britain 1870-1970
by Long, Vicky
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.
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- Full title :Destigmatising mental illness? : professional politics and public education in Britain 1870-1970 / Vicky Long.
Summary
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.
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- Publication Date:2014.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Manchester University Press
- Place of Publication:Manchester
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2014.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xiv, 256 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781526103253, 1526103257, 9781781707784, 1781707782, 9781781706404, 1781706409
- oclc:on1052116881
- LC Classification:RA790.7.G7
- Dewey Decimal:305.90840941
Table of Contents
Psychiatrists and their patients : mirrored narratives of sanity and madness -- Insecure professionals and the public -- Challenging the stigma of mental illness through new therapeutic approaches -- Mad, bad and dangerous to know? Men, women and mental illness -- 'The personal touch' : voluntarism, the public and mental illness -- 'The public must be wooed and enticed with entertainment and buns' : healthcare professionals and the BBC.
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