Every Family in the Land: Understanding prejudice and discrimination against people with mental illness, revised edition

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ISBN: 9781853155734 | 185315573X
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Copyright: 11/10/2003

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This is a revised edition of a valuable collection of over 80 learned articles, personal perspectives, and commentaries designed to shed light on the most common mental disorders, such as Alzheimer's Disease, alcohol or drug misuse, eating disorders, anxiety and depressive disorders, in thehope of dispelling some of the sigma which attaches to them. It has been produced as part of the Royal College of Psychiatrists anti-stigma campaign, "Changing Minds." This book will be of interest to all health professionals, social workers, carers, and anyone affected by mental illness.

Contributors	p. ix
Preface: Perspectives on stigmatisation, distancing and discrimination	p. xv
Acknowledgements	p. xix
Foreword: Why stigma matters	p. xxi
Dedication	p. xxiv
The history of stigmatisation of the mentally ill
Is mental illness inevitably stigmatising?	p. 3
Cultural and national aspects of stigmatisation	p. 14
People's perceptions of the mentally "ill" and the experiences of users and carers
Perception and experience of mental illnesses
The Royal College of Psychiatrists' survey of public opinions about mentally ill people	p. 21
Living with anxiety: Social phobia - my story	p. 26
Living with depression	p. 29
Living with manic depression: Personal perspectives from a psychologist	p. 31
Comment on Chapter 6	p. 34
A psychiatrist lives with bipolar affective disorder	p. 35
A blot on the landscape	p. 39
Living with schizophrenia	p. 41
Stigmatisation of dementia	p. 44
An insight into the world of anorexia nervosa, with particular reference to the resulting stigmatisation and social isolation	p. 46
The stigma of alcohol dependence - Andy's story	p. 48
The stigma of drug dependence - Angela's story	p. 50
Experiences of user and carer support groups
The stigmatisation of anxiety disorders	p. 52
Living with depression: The reality	p. 54
Schizophrenia: Prejudice and stigma	p. 57
From "victim and dement" to patient and person	p. 60
Eating disorders - public perceptions and the experiences of sufferers and their families regarding stigmatisation	p. 66
Stigmatisation of addiction	p. 68
The social impact of stigmatisation on users and carers	p. 72
Commentary on Section 2B	p. 78
The community and mental illness
The general practitioner's perspective	p. 80
Ethnicity: Relationship to stigmatisation of people with mental illness	p. 83
Stigma and homelessness	p. 88
Commentary on Section 2C	p. 93
Contemporary images and the future
Stigmatisation of people with schizophrenia	p. 95
Stigmatisation and suicide	p. 100
Cinematic portrayals of psychiatrists	p. 105
Imagining the nineties: Mental illness stigma in contemporary cinema	p. 110
Whither psychiatry?	p. 113
Commentary on Section 2D	p. 118
The origins of stigmatisation: Stigmatisation as a survival strategy
Personal responses to a lack of shared perception	p. 123
Shame, stigma and the family: "Skeletons in the cupboard" and the role of shame	p. 129
Intrapsychic mechanisms	p. 137
Commentary on Part 3	p. 143
Further commentary on Part 3: The tendency to stigmatise	p. 145
Self-inflictions, social adaptation or biological destiny? Models of psychopathology and their relationship to stigmatisation
Models of psychopathology of anxiety and their relationship to stigma	p. 153
Is there a relationship between ideas about the origins/nature of depressive illness and its stigmatisation?	p. 158
Malignant sadness: The evolutionary psychology of depression	p. 170
Drug and alcohol addiction	p. 175
The stigmatisation of eating disorders	p. 180
Mad and bad? Models of psycholopathology and the stigmatisation of people with schizophrenia	p. 188
Stigma in dementia	p. 193
Commentary on Part 4	p. 197
Personality disorder, its nature, stigmatisation, relationship to mental illness and its treatment possibilities
Personality disorder
Personality disorder: The origins of the concept. Nature and nurture	p. 203
Co-morbidity: Personality disorder and mental illness--the nature of their relationship	p. 209
The stigma of dangerousness	p. 217
Stigma and quality of life in personality disorder: The Cassel/North Devon study	p. 222
Commentary on Section 5A	p. 231
Panel discussion	p. 232
Stigmatisation of personality disorder
Descartes has a lot to answer for	p. 234
Antibodies to personality disorder	p. 239
Commentary on Section 5B	p. 245
Treatment of personality disorder
Where to treat? Its relevance to treatability	p. 248
The "therapeutic community": Outcome evaluation	p. 253
Commentary on Section 5C	p. 265
The Law and mental illness
The need for risk assessment: Myth versus reality	p. 269
Stigmatising "Care in the Community": Community care and risk management	p. 275
Fashions in forensic care: Implications for sense of self	p. 281
Mental health legislation is discriminating and stigmatising	p. 287
Commentary on Part 6	p. 291
Creativity and mental disorder
Genius and the mind	p. 299
Art and mental illness	p. 305
Commentary on Chapters 51 and 52	p. 309
Comment on creativity and mental disorder	p. 311
Comment based upon a study of biographies of 453 exceptionally creative men	p. 313
Spirituality and mental illness
The Christian perspective	p. 319
A Jewish approach to spirituality and mental illness	p. 324
The Muslim perspective: Every illness has a cure	p. 326
Commentary I on Part 8	p. 332
Commentary II on Part 8	p. 334
Some strategies to tackle stigmatisation and discrimination
Clinical
The destigmatising effect of listening to the patient	p. 339
Solutions to stigma: Sharing knowledge with the patient	p. 344
Social
Decreasing employment discrimination against people who have experienced mental health problems in a mental health trust	p. 350
Mental illness in medical students and doctors: Fitness to practise	p. 356
Stigmatisation of mentally ill medical students	p. 365
Statutory
Law and stigma: Present, future and futuristic solutions	p. 367
Other campaigns
The World Psychiatric Association programme against stigma and discrimination because of schizophrenia	p. 373
Mind's Respect Campaign--an overview	p. 376
Summary of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Campaign
Introduction to the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Campaign	p. 380
Getting our own house in order--The Doctors' Project: Background	p. 384
Getting our own house in order--The Doctors' Project: The report	p. 387
Changing Minds--The Workplace Project	p. 392
Changing Minds--The Children's Project	p. 394
Changing Minds--The Schizophrenia Project	p. 397
Getting the show on the road	p. 400
Mental illness and the media	p. 406
The nature of stigmatisation	p. 412
Epilogue: Concluding message from the Royal College of Psychiatrists	p. 427
Colour plate section	p. 316
Appendix
Notes on illustrations and artists	p. 431
Index	p. 439
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