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Psychiatry in Britain - Meaning and Policy (Paperback)
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Psychiatry in Britain - Meaning and Policy (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Psychiatry
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Originally published in 1985, this book focuses on British
psychiatric policies, particularly in the 1920s, and 1950s when the
main legislation concerning mental illness was passed. It
approaches policy primarily as the outcome of the relationship
between politicians' attitudes and those of professional groups in
a specific social context. It examines the beliefs and theories of
psychiatrists, nurses, psychologists and social workers, as well as
the attitudes of government and MPs to mental illness, related
services and its role in society. It is argued that the adherence
to a medical-somatic view of mental illness by psychiatrists and
politicians alike has led to the exclusion of viable alternatives,
despite lip service being paid to some of them. It is shown that
the issues of recent decades have important messages today,
particularly in view of the 1982 amendments to the Mental Health
Act and the debate about community services.
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