No Asylum
No Asylum

Author: Thomas A. Oleszczuk

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1349135550

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No Asylum is a quantitative assessment of the incidence of state repression via the peculiar institution of forced psychiatric hospitalization of evidently healthy Soviet dissidents. The book explains who was targeted and why, as the State used psychiatry to attempt to deflect, defuse, discredit or destroy the multifaceted dissident movement. Although new detentions virtually ceased as the Union fragmented, it is too early to write an epitaph for psychiatric abuse: political use of psychiatry could be revived in Russia.

Helping Families Cope With Mental Illness
Helping Families Cope With Mental Illness

Author: Harriet P Lefley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 1134958374

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In this age of spiraling health care costs, it is imperative that the family's role in treating patients with chronic mental illness not be overlooked - by policy makers and clinicians alike. The families themselves insist that the government and care-providing agencies learn new ways to relate to them and patients. Helping Families Cope with Mental Illness is a comprehensive guide to the family's experience of chronic and serious mental illness for clinicians and educators in a wide range of mental health disciplines. It details all major areas of the clinician-family relationship - consumer perspectives, cultural diversity, social policy, ethical issues, practical coping strategies, research and training issues, major service issues, managed care, and cost-saving measures.

Public Mental Health
Public Mental Health

Author: William W. Eaton

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2012-08-23

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 019539044X

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Public Mental Health provides a comprehensive introduction and reference for the public health approach to mental and behavioral disorders, and to promotion of mental health.