http://www.elseviermentalhealth.com/rss/wider-readings/ Copyright Elsevier Ltd Intuitiv Ltd (www.intuitiv.net) 2010-03-11T01:03Z http://www.elseviermentalhealth.com/wider-readings/13/the-mass-marketing-of-disordered-eating-and-eating-disorders-the-social-psychology-of-women-thinness-and-culture/ Contrasting the pervasive belief that Eating Disorders are primarily psychiatric in nature, we contend that they are also symptomatic of a social problem. Eating Disorders and disorderly eating are also culturally-induced diseases promoted partly by economic and social institutions that profit from the “cult of thinness” promoted by the mass media. 26 November 2009 http://www.elseviermentalhealth.com/wider-readings/13/the-mass-marketing-of-disordered-eating-and-eating-disorders-the-social-psychology-of-women-thinness-and-culture/ http://www.elseviermentalhealth.com/wider-readings/12/cognitive-behavior-therapy-for-adults-who-stutter-a-tutorial-for-speech-language-pathologists/ This paper explores the relationships between anxiety and stuttering and provides an overview of cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) strategies that can be applied by speech-language pathologists. There is much support for the idea that adults who stutter (AWS) may need CBT. 06 October 2009 http://www.elseviermentalhealth.com/wider-readings/12/cognitive-behavior-therapy-for-adults-who-stutter-a-tutorial-for-speech-language-pathologists/ http://www.elseviermentalhealth.com/wider-readings/8/spaces-of-psychiatric-contention-a-case-study-of-a-therapeutic-community/ This article uses a historical case study of a day hospital therapeutic community (TC) to explore the emergence of particular spaces of psychiatric contention. 02 October 2009 http://www.elseviermentalhealth.com/wider-readings/8/spaces-of-psychiatric-contention-a-case-study-of-a-therapeutic-community/ http://www.elseviermentalhealth.com/wider-readings/7/innovation-in-a-backwater-the-harpurhey-resettlement-team-and-the-mental-health-services-of-north-manchester-1982-1987/ This paper explores the circumstances around the setting up of the Harpurhey Resettlement Team, an innovative project which, in the late 1980s, resettled around 20 long-stay patients from Springfield Hospital in North Manchester into ordinary tenancies within the same neighbourhood. 02 October 2009 http://www.elseviermentalhealth.com/wider-readings/7/innovation-in-a-backwater-the-harpurhey-resettlement-team-and-the-mental-health-services-of-north-manchester-1982-1987/ http://www.elseviermentalhealth.com/wider-readings/6/prairies-psychedelics-and-place-the-dynamics-of-region-in-psychiatric-research/ This article considers the influence of location on the development of a medical theory that challenged prevailing ideas about the causation and treatment of mental illness and addiction. 02 October 2009 http://www.elseviermentalhealth.com/wider-readings/6/prairies-psychedelics-and-place-the-dynamics-of-region-in-psychiatric-research/ http://www.elseviermentalhealth.com/wider-readings/9/unpromising-configurations-towards-local-historical-geographies-of-psychiatry/ This paper introduces a theme section comprising of three other papers, written from cross-disciplinary perspectives, exploring what might be termed ‘local historical geographies of psychiatry’, and in particular demonstrating how pioneering innovations in the treatment of mental health problems sometimes emerge from the most ‘unpromising’ of spaces and places. 02 October 2009 http://www.elseviermentalhealth.com/wider-readings/9/unpromising-configurations-towards-local-historical-geographies-of-psychiatry/