Key Concepts in Mental Health

Part I: Mental Health and Mental Health ProblemsMental HealthICD (International Classification of Diseases)DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual)Psychological FormulationsThe Myth of Mental Illness NeuroscienceCauses and Consequences of Mental Health ProblemsSubjective and Objective Aspects of Mental HealthMadness Sadness Fear Personality DisordersSelf-harm Substance Misuse Learning Disability Physical Health Wellbeing Pleasure Creativity Spirituality Lay Views of Mental Health and IllnessEating DisordersPart II: Mental Health ServicesPrimary CareAcute Mental Health ServicesForensic Mental Health ServicesService-user Involvement Carers Mental Health Professionals Biological InterventionsPsychological Interventions Financial Aspects of Mental Health The Quality of Mental Health Care Evidence-based Practice Recovery Coercion Corruption of CareMalpractice The Mental Health Service Users' MovementPublic Mental HealthPart III: Mental Health and SocietyMental Health Policy Mental Health Promotion Segregation Eugenics Capacity and Culpability Anti-psychiatryLabelling TheoryAttachment TheoryStigma Social and Cultural Capital Social Exclusion WorkRisks to and from People with Mental Health ProblemsThe Mass MediaSocial Models of Mental HealthSuicideCross-cultural Psychiatry Social Class RaceGenderAge Childhood Adversity The Pharmaceutical IndustryWarfare

David Pilgrim is Professor of Health and Social Policy, Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool, UK. After training and working as a clinical psychologist he completed a PhD examining psychotherapy in the organisational setting of the British NHS. He then went on the complete a Master's in sociology. He has worked at the boundary between clinical psychology and medical sociology for the past twenty years and has produced over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals, based upon his research into mental health policy and practice. His years working in the British NHS provided him with extensive everyday experience of the theoretical and policy aspects of mental health expressed in practical settings. One his books, A Sociology of Mental Health and Illness (3rd edition, Open University Press, 2005), co-authored with Anne Rogers, won the British Medical Association's medical book of the year award for 2006. Currently he is writing a book on critical realism and mental health (Routledge, 2014) and is co-editing (with John Hall) a book on the history of British clinical psychology for the British Psychological Society. This will commemorate the fiftieth anniversary in 2015 of the establishment in the latter of the Division of Clinical Psychology.