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Author: Brendan Kelly
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780995792715
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a clear overview of mental health, illness, and well-being in Ireland, with a guide to common mental illnesses, their symptoms, and treatments.
Author: Pauline M. Prior
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Published: 2017-02-10
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1911024620
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a collection of studies on mental health services in Ireland from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present day. Essays cover overall trends in patient numbers, an exploration of the development of mental health law in Ireland, and studies on individual hospitals – all of which provide incredible insight into times past and yet speak volumes about mental health in contemporary Irish society. Topics include the famous nursing strike at Monaghan Asylum in 1919, when a red flag was raised over the building; extracts from Speedwell, a hospital newsletter, showing the social and sporting life at Holywell Hospital during the 1960s; an exploration of diseases such as beriberi and tuberculosis at Dundrum and the Richmond in the 1890s; the problems encountered by doctors in Ballinasloe Asylum as they tried to exert their authority over the Governors; and the experiences of Irish emigrants who found themselves in asylums in Australia and New Zealand. The book also includes a discussion of mental health services in Ireland 1959–2010, the first time such a chronology has been published. The editor, Pauline Prior, and the contributors, including Brendan Kelly, Dermot Walsh, Elizabeth Malcolm and E.M. Crawford, are well-known scholars within the disciplines of medicine, sociology and history, coming together for the first time to present an essential book on the history of mental health services in Ireland.
Author: Brendan Kelly
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Published: 2016-11-07
Total Pages: 610
ISBN-13: 1911024442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHearing Voices: The History of Psychiatry in Ireland is a monumental work by one of Ireland’s leading psychiatrists, encompassing every psychiatric development from the Middle Ages to the present day, and examining the far-reaching social and political effects of Ireland’s troubled relationship with mental illness. From the “Glen of Lunatics”, said to cure the mentally ill, to the overcrowded asylums of later centuries – with more beds for the mentally ill than any other country in the world – Ireland has a complex, unsettled history in the practice of psychiatry. Kelly’s definitive work examines Ireland’s unique relationship with conceptions of mental ill health throughout the centuries, delving into each medical breakthrough and every misuse of authority – both political and domestic – for those deemed to be mentally ill. Through fascinating archival records, Kelly writes a crisp and accessible history, evaluating everything from individual case histories to the seismic effects of the First World War, and exploring the attitudes that guided treatments, spanning Brehon Law to the emerging emphasis on human rights. Hearing Voices is a marvel that affords incredible insight into Ireland’s social and medical history while providing powerful observations on our current treatment of mental ill health in Ireland.
Author: United Nations
Publisher: UN
Published: 2021-05-31
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9789211033076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor the last 20 years, the Innocenti Report Card series has led the way in comparing children's well-being across rich countries. Report Card 16 develops this further through a multi-level approach to show that children's well-being is influenced by children's own actions and relationships, by the networks and resources of their caregivers, and by public policies and the national context. This approach is aligned with the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, in that it recognizes the responsibilities of governments, families and communities to help realize children's rights and promote their well-being.
Author: Alice Mauger
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-12-21
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 3319652443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis open access book is the first comparative study of public, voluntary and private asylums in nineteenth-century Ireland. Examining nine institutions, it explores whether concepts of social class and status and the emergence of a strong middle class informed interactions between gender, religion, identity and insanity. It questions whether medical and lay explanations of mental illness and its causes, and patient experiences, were influenced by these concepts. The strong emphasis on land and its interconnectedness with notions of class identity and respectability in Ireland lends a particularly interesting dimension. The book interrogates the popular notion that relatives were routinely locked away to be deprived of land or inheritance, querying how often “land grabbing” Irish families really abused the asylum system for their personal economic gain. The book will be of interest to scholars of nineteenth-century Ireland and the history of psychiatry and medicine in Britain and Ireland.
Author: Helen Johnston
Publisher:
Published: 2014-07
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9781904541509
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author examines the factors involved in successful implementation of national policy, using Ireland's current mental health policy as a case study. The findings have relevance for the implementation of nationally designed policies intended to be implemented across the country in an even-handed way.
Author: Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2001-01-03
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0520224809
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics, in its original form--now integrally reproduced in the new edition--is a most important seminal study of an Irish community."—Conor Cruise O'Brien
Author: National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (Great Britain)
Publisher: RCPsych Publications
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781908020314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing together treatment and referral advice from existing guidelines, this text aims to improve access to services and recognition of common mental health disorders in adults and provide advice on the principles that need to be adopted to develop appropriate referral and local care pathways.
Author: Hewlett Emily
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2014-07-08
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9264208445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book addresses the high cost of mental illness, the organisation of care, changes and future directions for the mental health workforce, indicators for mental health care and quality, and tools for better governance of the system.
Author: Alice Mills
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-11-19
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 3319940902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines how the prison environment, architecture and culture can affect mental health as well as determine both the type and delivery of mental health services. It also discusses how non-medical practices, such as peer support and prison education programs, offer the possibility of transformative practice and support. By drawing on international contributions, it furthermore demonstrates how mental health in prisons is affected by wider socio-economic and cultural factors, and how in recent years neo-liberalism has abandoned, criminalised and contained large numbers of the world’s most marginalised and vulnerable populations. Overall, this collection challenges the dominant narrative of individualism by focusing instead on the relationship between structural inequalities, suffering, survival and punishment. Chapter 2 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.
