1st Edition
Location and Stigma Contemporary Perspectives on Mental Health and Mental Health Care
Introduction
Christopher J. Smith and John A. Giggs
Part 1: The history and politics of mental health care: a comparative perspective
1. The Anglo-American asylum in historical perspective
Nancy Tomes
2. Mental health care in Europe: some recent trends
Philip Bean
3. Mental health services, the restructuring of care, and the fiscal crisis of the state: the United Kingdom case study
John Eyles
4. Recent Trends in the political economy of mental health
Phil Brown
Part 2: Some clues about etiology: the social and environmental context of mental illness
5. Coping in the community: a review of factors influencing the lives of deinstitutionalized ex-psychiatric patients
Glenda Laws and Michael Dear
6. The spatial ecology of mental illness
John A Giggs
7. The economy as stressor
David Dooley, Ralph Catalano, and Seth Serxner
8. Psychological distress, and the wellbeing of workers in distressed communities
Terry F. Buss and F. Stevens Redburn
Part 3: The provision and impact of community care
9. Locating mental health facilities: a case study
Andrew J. Sixsmith
10. “Is there one round here?” – investigating reaction to small-scale mental health hostel provision in Portsmouth, England
Graham Moon
11. Community reactions to deinstitutionalization
S. Martin Taylor
Part 4: Stigma and rejection in the community: the continuing search for a home for the mentally ill
12. No place like home: reflections on sheltering a diverse population
Steven P. Segal and Jim Baumohl
13. To backwards? – prospects for reinstitutionalization of the mentally disabled
Jennifer R. Wolch, Cynthia A. Nelson, and Annette Rubalcaba
14. Homelessness and mental illness in America: emerging issues in the construction of a social problem
Joseph P. Morrissey and Kostas Gounis
Biography
Christopher J. Smith
John A. Giggs
Reviews of the first publication:
‘Readers who are not familiar with political, social and economic theory will find this a demanding but nevertheless rewarding collection…it does gather together a body of writing that is pertinent to the role of psychiatry…’
— Traolach S. Brugha, University of Leicester, UK
‘…there is much that is of interest and the volume makes a useful addition to work in the field.’
— Joan Busfield, University of Essex, UK
‘It fills an important niche in a growing literature and is recommended based upon the strength of several individual contributions…’
— G. Brent Hall, University of Waterloo, Canada
