Mental Health Matters: A Reader

by Tom Heller, Roger Gomm (Editor), Rosemary Muston (Editor), Stephen Pattison (Editor), Jill Reynolds (Editor)

Members	Reviews	Popularity	Average rating	Conversations
13	None	1,520,715	(4)	None
Mental Health Matters is an innovative, interdisciplinary collection of texts which challenge traditional understandings of mental health, emphasising the perspectives of mental health service-users. Combining classic writings about mental health practices and problems from psychiatry, sociology and psychology with specially commissioned new articles, it considers theories and debates in mental health and distress; the social and historical dimensions of mental health; involving users in mental health services and practically improving those services.… (more)

all members

▾Members

Recently added by

Bellsbella, Ajayg52, lunatikscience, Madboy23, antimuzak, NickyChapman, Lysias, IndygoGirl, mcp.troll

▾Tags

collection (1) madness (1) mental health (3) non-fiction (1) OU (1) psychology (1) Shelf A65 (1) sociology (1) store (1)

▾Lists

None

▾Will you like it?

▾Conversations (About links)

No current Talk conversations about this book.

▾Member reviews

No reviews

▾Published reviews

no reviews | add a review

▾Other authors

» Add other authors

Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Tom Heller	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Gomm, Roger	Editor	main author	all editions	confirmed
Muston, Rosemary	Editor	main author	all editions	confirmed
Pattison, Stephen	Editor	main author	all editions	confirmed
Reynolds, Jill	Editor	main author	all editions	confirmed

▾Series and work relationships

▾Awards and Honors

view history

▾Common Knowledge

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.

Canonical title

Original title

Alternative titles

Original publication date

People/Characters

Important places

Important events

Related movies

Epigraph

Dedication

First words

Quotations

Last words

Disambiguation notice

Publisher's editors

Blurbers

Original language

Canonical DDC/MDS

Canonical LCC

▾References

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English

None

▾Book descriptions

Mental Health Matters is an innovative, interdisciplinary collection of texts which challenge traditional understandings of mental health, emphasising the perspectives of mental health service-users. Combining classic writings about mental health practices and problems from psychiatry, sociology and psychology with specially commissioned new articles, it considers theories and debates in mental health and distress; the social and historical dimensions of mental health; involving users in mental health services and practically improving those services.

▾Library descriptions

No library descriptions found.

▾LibraryThing members' description

Book description

Haiku summary