Deviance and mental illness
By: edited by Walter R. Gove.
Contributors: Gove, Walter R.
Series: Sage annual reviews of studies in deviance ;; v. 6
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Beverly Hills
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Mental illness.; Psychiatry.; Mental disorders.; Behavior -- Classification.; Psychiatry -- Trends.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: value: The definition and diagnosis of mental disorder / Robert L. Spitzer and Janet B.W. Williams; value: Learning to label: the social construction of psychiatrists / Donald W. Light; value: Cultural shaping and mental disorder / Jane M. Murphy; value: Labelling someone mentally ill: a case study / Anonymous; value: The mental hospital from the patient's point of view / Raymond M. Weinstein; value: Deinstitutionalizing the mentally ill: process, outcomes and new directions / Joseph P. Morrissey; value: The psychiatric revolution of the past twenty-five years / Gerald L. Klerman; value: Antipsychiatry from the sixties to the eighties / Peter Sedgwick; value: The image of mental illness in the mass media / Charles Winick; value: Life events, social supports and mental health / Ronald C. Kessler; value: The current status of the labelling theory of mental illness / Walter R. Gove.