Mental Health - Wider Reading

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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