David Pilgrim – A New Vision for Mental Health

A Sociology of Mental Health and Illness

Author: Editorial 17th March 2022 0 Comments

This 6th edition book has been co-authored by Anne Rogers and David Pilgrim. The publishers say: “How do we understand mental health problems in their social context? A former BMA Medical Book of the Year award winner, this book provides a…
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a coherent system

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Understanding Mental Health: A critical realist exploration

Author: Editorial 3rd January 2019 0 Comments

Written by David Pilgrim (Professor of Health & Social Policy in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool), this book has the following Table of Contents: 1. Psychiatric crises and the crisis of psychiatry 2….
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a wellbeing society

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Are kindly and efficacious mental health services possible?

Author: Editorial 9th August 2018 0 Comments

Prof. David Pilgrim writes (in the Journal of Mental Health ): “The above question was explored by Peter Sedgwick in his classic text PsychoPolitics at the very moment when ‘anti-psychiatry’ was giving way to ‘critical psychiatry’ and the emergence of a New Social Movement…
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a coherent system

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