Name: Being Mentally Ill: A Sociological Theory (Social Problems and Social Issues) (en Inglés)
SKU: 1588755
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Author: Thomas J. Scheff
ISBN: 9780202305875

portada Being Mentally Ill: A Sociological Theory (Social Problems and Social Issues) (en Inglés)

Being Mentally Ill: A Sociological Theory (Social Problems and Social Issues) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Aldine Transaction

Autor

Thomas J. Scheff

Año

1999

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

220

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

ISBN

0202305872

ISBN13

9780202305875

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Being Mentally Ill: A Sociological Theory (Social Problems and Social Issues) (en Inglés)

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In incorporating social process into a model of the dynamics of mental disorders, this text questions the individualistic model favoured in current psychiatric and psychoanalytic theory. While the conventional psychiatric viewpoint seeks the causes of mental illness, Scheff views "the symptoms of mental illness" as the violation of residual rules - social norms so taken for granted that they are not explicitly verbalized. The sociological theory developed by Scheff to account for such behaviour provides a framework for studies reported in subsequent chapters. Two key assumptions emerge: first, that most chronic mental illness is in part a social role; and second, that societal reaction may in part determine entry into that role. Throughout, the sociological model of mental illness is compared and contrasted with more conventional medical and psychological models in an attempt to delineate significant problems for further analysis and research. This third edition has been revised and expanded to encompass the controversy prompted by the first edition, and also to re-evaluate developments in the field. New to this edition are discussions of the use of psychoactive drugs in the treatment of mental illness, changing mental health laws, new social science and psychiatric studies, and the controversy surrounding the labelling theory of mental illness itself.