Narratives of Mental Health New Perspectives

This book is an investigation of mental health user narratives exploring periods of illness, psychiatric treatment, recovery, and self-coping.

BRUCE COHEN is a Research Fellow at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. He has previously researched mental health communities in Teesside and Bradford, publishing articles in the Psychiatric Bulletin and Science, Discourse and Mind. He has been awarded Research Scholarships to work in Australia and Germany, and is currently researching migrant youth in Berlin.

List of Tables	p. x
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xii
List of Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Mental Illness and Psychiatry	p. 6
Summary	p. 6
Histories of madness	p. 7
Theories of mental illness	p. 20
Psychiatry and medico-eclecticism	p. 27
Conclusion	p. 30
Narratives	p. 32
Summary	p. 32
Background	p. 32
Post-modernism	p. 33
The psychiatric narrative	p. 36
Social constructionism	p. 42
Personality theorists	p. 45
Social science	p. 47
A narrative approach	p. 50
A definition	p. 55
Conclusion	p. 58
Crisis Intervention and Home Treatment	p. 60
Summary	p. 60
Crisis intervention	p. 61
Home treatment	p. 63
Background	p. 67
Philosophy	p. 69
Practice	p. 72
The end of the Bradford Home Treatment Service	p. 73
Conclusion	p. 76
Methods	p. 77
Summary	p. 77
The home treatment sample	p. 78
The hospital sample	p. 79
Piloting	p. 81
Narrative collection	p. 85
Narrative analysis	p. 87
Conclusion	p. 89
The User Narratives	p. 90
Summary	p. 90
Hospital narrative: Philip	p. 92
Home treatment narrative: Michael	p. 99
Hospital narrative: Rachel	p. 102
Home treatment narrative: Catriona	p. 106
Hospital narrative: Tariq	p. 110
Home treatment narrative: Yunas	p. 115
Hospital narrative: Carmen	p. 119
Home treatment narrative: Raiza	p. 125
Hospital and home treatment user narratives	p. 128
Conclusion	p. 131
Descent into Illness and Psychiatric Intervention	p. 132
Summary	p. 132
Precipitating factors	p. 132
Referrals	p. 134
Psychiatric hospital	p. 135
Bradford Home Treatment Service	p. 144
Conclusion	p. 147
Recovery from Illness and Self-Coping	p. 149
Summary	p. 149
Current state of being	p. 149
The meaning of illness	p. 152
Self-coping strategies	p. 156
Spiritualism	p. 158
Positive aspects of illness	p. 161
The future	p. 161
Conclusion	p. 163
Conclusion	p. 165
Summary	p. 165
The 'narrative approach'	p. 165
Narrative comparisons	p. 168
The psychiatric narrative and the user narratives	p. 169
Ethnicity and gender	p. 175
Social and economic factors	p. 176
Metaphor and meaning	p. 178
Implications	p. 179
Conclusion	p. 182
Appendices	p. 184
Initial letter given to all Bradford Home Treatment Service users at discharge	p. 184
Letter sent to sampled home treatment users, requesting an interview	p. 184
Letter sent to hospital-only users requesting an interview	p. 186
Background information, notes and draft topic guide for pilot interviews	p. 186
Revised topic guide following pilot interviews	p. 188
Bibliography	p. 189
Index	p. 202
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