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ISBN 10: 1134587260
ISBN 13: 9781134587261 
Author: Dr. Leonard Bowers

Psychiatrists assert that mental illness is a physiological brain disorder. The anti-psychiatry movement refutes this on grounds of lack of evidence claiming that mental illness is socially defined. Len Bowers offers a rational, objective and philosophical critique of the theories of mental illness as a social construct and concludes that, though sometimes misguided, they cannot be wholly rejected. This critical scrutiny of a controversial and keenly-debated issue will be of interest to psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, sociologists and professionals in paramedical disciplines.

The Social Nature of Mental Illness 1st Table of contents:

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 2: DEVIANCE

• CLASSIC LABELLING THEORY
• APPLICATIONS TO MENTAL ILLNESS: SCHEFF AND GOVE
• CURRENT STATUS OF DEVIANCY THEORY
• DEVIANCE AS DIFFERENCE FROM THE NORM
• CRIME AS COVERT PARADIGM
• APPLICATION OF LEMERT’S THEORY TO MENTAL ILLNESS
• DEVIANCY AND RELATIVITY
• IMPACT UPON SOCIOLOGY
• SCHEFF AND THE CONCEPT OF RESIDUAL RULES
• SOME MISUNDERSTANDINGS
• SOCIETAL REACTION AS ALL POWERFUL
• OUTCOME OF THE SCHEFF/GOVE DEBATE
• RECENT EMPIRICAL STUDIES
• ON BEING SANE IN INSANE PLACES
• SOME ORIGINS OF DEVIANCY AND LABELLING THEORY
• SUMMARY

CHAPTER 3: RULES

• SOCIAL ORDER
• RULES AS A UNITARY PHENOMENON
• WITTGENSTEIN ON RULES
• CONSEQUENCES OF MISTAKEN THINKING ABOUT RULES
• MENTAL ILLNESS AND RULE BREAKING
• SUMMARY

CHAPTER 4: CULTURE

• IMPORTANCE OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
• AN EXAMPLE OF PHILOSOPHICAL CONFUSION
• CULTURE AND EXPERIENCE
• THINKING AND FEELING AMONG THE IFALUK
• INDIVIDUALISM VERSUS SOCIOCENTRICITY
• ESKIMOS AND SNOW
• CULTURAL TRANSLATION AND CONTEXT STRIPPING
• UNIVERSAL DIAGNOSTIC CATEGORIES
• UNIVERSALITY OF DIAGNOSES OTHER THAN SCHIZOPHRENIA
• OTHER COMPETING PERSPECTIVES
• CULTURAL INFLUENCE UPON MENTAL DISORDER
• ETHNOEPISTEMOLOGY AND ETHNOTHEORIES
• SUFFERING AND DEPRESSION AROUND THE WORLD
• SUMMARY

CHAPTER 5: DIAGNOSIS

• DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS AS CULTURAL PRODUCTS
• DOES A DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM IMPLY AN ILLNESS MODEL?
• DIAGNOSES, MECHANISMS AND CAUSATION
• RIGOUR, UTILITY AND PATTERN
• CONFUSIONS ABOUT DIAGNOSIS AND LABELLING THEORY
• STEREOTYPING WITHIN THE PSYCHIATRIC SYSTEM
• SELF IMAGE
• DIAGNOSTIC TERMINOLOGY AS DEHUMANISING
• PSYCHIATRIC BOUNDARIES
• VALUE OF DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS
• BOYLE AND SCHIZOPHRENIA
• SUMMARY

CHAPTER 6: HISTORY

• TEMPORAL DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSES
• RELATIVITY VERSUS CONTINUITY
• INFLUENCE OF CONCEPTS UPON EXPERIENCE
• FOUCAULT AND CHANGING CONCEPTIONS OF MENTAL ILLNESS
• PSYCHIATRIC EXPANSIONISM
• LABELLING AND DEVIANCY THEORY IN THE HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRY
• MORAL TREATMENT AND CONCEPTS OF INSANITY
• RESPONSIBILITY AND MENTAL ILLNESS
• TURNING-POINTS AND HISTORICAL CHANGE
• SUMMARY

CHAPTER 7: POLITICS

• THE FUNCTION OF PSYCHIATRY
• EXPLAINING AWAY MORAL PROBLEMS
• VENTILATION OF EMOTION
• MENTALLY ILL TAKE THE BLAME FOR SOCIAL PROBLEMS
• OTHER POSSIBLE FUNCTIONS OF PSYCHIATRY
• MARX, FREUD AND PSYCHIATRY
• MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USERS’ MOVEMENT
• POLITICAL REPRESSION
• PSYCHIATRY AS A POLITICAL MOVEMENT OR PRODUCT
• SUMMARY

CHAPTER 8: ILLNESS

• A PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEM
• LANGUAGE AND REPRESENTATION
• SYSTEMATIC AMBIGUITY
• SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL DEFINITIONS
• LANGUAGE AS ACTION
• METAPHORS AND MENTAL ILLNESS
• MENTAL ILLNESS AS PHYSIOLOGICAL DISORDER
• CROP AND BLIGHT
• ILLNESS AND INCAPACITATION
• EVOLUTIONARY CRITERIA
• RESPONSIBILITY AND ABSOLUTION
• INSANITY AND RATIONALITY
• COMMON FEATURES
• PROS AND CONS OF THE ILLNESS PARADIGM
• LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS
• SUMMARY

CHAPTER 9: PHYSIOLOGY

• PSYCHOLOGICAL MALFUNCTIONING
• RELATIONSHIP OF WORDS TO NEUROLOGICAL STATES
• EMPIRICAL ARGUMENTS DENYING PHYSIOLOGICAL CAUSATION
• A PRIORI ARGUMENTS DENYING PHYSIOLOGICAL CAUSATION
• COMPUTER ANALOGIES
• BRAIN CORRELATES AND CAUSALITY
• DISEASE STATUS AND PHYSIOLOGICAL CAUSATION
• PHYSIOLOGICAL HYPOTHESIS GENERATION
• BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL AETIOLOGICAL ACCOUNTS
• SOCIOBIOLOGICAL INFLUENCES
• PHYSIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL LEGITIMACY
• SUMMARY

CHAPTER 10: SOCIAL CONSTRUCT

• PHYSIOLOGICAL CAUSE A POSSIBILITY
• POSITIVISM AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
• LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION
• CONSEQUENCES FOR PSYCHIATRY

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