Building a New Community Psychology of Mental Health Spaces, Places, People and Activities

Building a New Community Psychology of Mental Health Spaces, Places, People and Activities / by Carl Walker, Angie Hart, Paul Hanna.

This book provides a much-needed account of informal community-based approaches to working with mental distress. It starts from the premise that contemporary mainstream psychiatry and psychology struggle to capture how distress results from complex embodied arrays of social experiences that are embe...

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Main Authors: Walker, Carl (Author), Hart, Angie (Author), Hanna, Paul (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Psychology, Pathological.
Clinical psychology.
Critical psychology.
Social service.
Psychotherapy   .
Social work.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. The Flawed Assumptions of Psychology and Psychiatry: A Martian Analysis
  • Chapter 2. Social Approaches to Distress: From Enclosures to Fluid Spaces
  • Chapter 3. ‘Bike Minded’ - Normal Human Encounters (on Bikes)
  • Chapter 5. ‘Helping Them Hold Up Their World’: Parents of Children with Complex Needs and the Beneficent Organisation
  • Chapter 6. I’m Singing in the Rain
  • Chapter 7: ‘A Place to Be’: A Cut and Shut of the Brighton Unemployed Families Centre Project
  • Chapter 8. The Joy of Sex
  • Chapter 9. Some Possible Directions for the Future. .

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