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Shunned

01 February 2007

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

This is a densely written text on how people with mental illnesses are discriminated against. I do not agree with the blurb which describes it as written in a...

Exploring laing’s work

01 April 2009

Mental Health Practice

Letter

Disingenuous. That’s the word I would use to describe Alex Reed’s article in which he made certain claims – some defensible – about RD Laing (MHP, March 2009,...

Mental health across cultures

01 November 2009

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

THE EMPHASIS in this text is on the nature and usefulness of largely western styles and approaches to therapy which may, when modified, be useful when dealing with...

Embracing the wide sky: a tour across the horizons of the human mind

01 September 2010

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

One OF the key points made by Daniel Tammet is that the amazing abilities of so-called autistic savants are not the outcome of dry mechanical processes, but derive...

Social Divisions

01 March 2007

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

Although this book has the feel of being on its way to attaining some kind of classic status in its field – that of sociology and social science – it becomes hard to...

Insanity and Divinity

09 June 2014

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

I IMAGINE that insanity conceived in any sense as divine will challenge conceptions of psychiatry that focus on scientific principles and medically dominated...

Cultural diversity, mental health and psychiatry: the struggle against racism

01 March 2004

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

There is much about this book that is praise- worthy: it is well written, the research is good and Fernando brings a calm and erudite sensibility to his subject....

Committed to the sane asylum: narratives on mental wellness and healing

01 February 2012

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

THIS IS a personal account of a journey through psychosis, and it stands or falls not on the facts of the case, but on its telling. In this instance we are in luck...

Cognitive behavioural therapy in mental health care

01 March 2005

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

This book stands a good chance of becoming the standard text in its field. Although written by four people – who have a combined impressive history in practice and...

Our encounters with madness

01 April 2012

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

IT CAME as a surprise, given its genre title ‘Our encounters with’, and its claims for the power of narrative, that this book’s authors’ experiences are largely...