Mental Health Uncertainty and Inevitability: Rejuvenating the Relationship Between Social Science and Psychiatry

by Melanie Jordan

Book Overview

This book offers original knowledge, debate, and understanding from frontline fieldwork data and the relations between mental health difficulties, mental healthcare provision, and social theory.

Dominant discourse of the last half century has followed a medical perspective. This has marginalised contributions from social science. Furthermore purely medical approaches to mental healthcare have profound shortcomings. Thus, this book draws upon...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319829513
• ISBN13: 9783319829517
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"