Leff / Robinson / Athelstan Spilhaus The Search for Sanity

The Commonwealth and International Library
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4831-3884-8
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Web PDF

The Search for Sanity provides a comprehensive discussion of the issue of mental illness. The book begins by addressing the question of whether society is sick. This is followed by separate chapters on the social aspects of mental health; the problems caused by sex such as prostitution, sexually transmitted disease, and illegitimate births; how the quest for power can destroy people; and ways people try to escape from reality, including drug use and alcohol consumption. Subsequent chapters cover the treatment for mental illness, how treatment helps, hospital care, and ways the community can help. The final chapter deals with the promotion of mental health and prevention of mental illness.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leff, S.

Leff, V.

Robinson, Robert

Athelstan Spilhaus, Dean

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;The Search for Sanity;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;Chapter 1. Is Society Sick ?;8
5.1;Do doctors know what is wrong?;10
5.2;Mind and body;11
5.3;How much hidden mental illness is there?;11
5.4;The test of a sound mind;13
5.5;Mental health;15
6;Chapter 2. Society and Mental Health;18
6.1;The environment of mental illness;19
6.2;New homes for old;20
6.3;New Towns for Old;20
6.4;Are they mad or bad?;22
6.5;Crime and illness;24
6.6;Work can be healthy;25
6.7;No place to hide;27
6.8;The price of peace;28
6.9;Different places, different effects;30
6.10;Adaptation to social change;31
6.11;Society could help you;34
7;Chapter 3. Sex Can Cause Trouble;36
7.1;Society against the individual;37
7.2;Teenage troubles;38
7.3;Selling sex;39
7.4;Teaching sex;40
7.5;Gonorrhoea spreads;41
7.6;Pick-up girls and their customers;42
7.7;Teaching the teachers;42
7.8;Why do marriages fail?;43
7.9;The unmarried mother;45
7.10;Motherhood and mental illness;46
7.11;The years of change;48
7.12;'Abnormal' sex;49
7.13;Sex and boredom;51
8;Chapter 4. Power Destroys People;54
8.1;The casualties of competition;55
8.2;The power-seekers;57
8.3;Weary with age;59
8.4;Going downhill;61
8.5;Old and poor;62
8.6;S.O.S. The old and weak;64
9;Chapter 5. The Escape from Reality;66
9.1;The escape from reality;67
9.2;Why people drink too much;67
9.3;Are alcoholics ill?;69
9.4;Trying a cure;71
9.5;The ' way out' through drugs
;73
9.6;The traffic in drugs;79
9.7;Rescue operations;80
9.8;The last way out;80
9.9;Depression can kill;81
9.10;The lonely bed-sitter;82
9.11;Study and strain;83
9.12;The easy way;84
9.13;How to save these people;84
10;Chapter 6. What Is Behind the Treatment?;86
10.1;The proper study of mankind;87
10.2;Psychoanalysis and the 'unconscious';87
10.3;The followers of Freud;89
10.4;The criticism of Freudian theories;90
10.5;Tribute to Freud;91
10.6;The psychoanalyst's view of society;91
10.7;Body interacts with mind;92
10.8;A new approach to mental disturbances;93
10.9;'Stress' and how it affects people
;94
10.10;Drugs and mental disturbance;95
10.11;How much do we know?;97
11;Chapter 7. How Treatment Helps;98
11.1;Different ways;99
11.2;Who gets well?;99
11.3;A new abroach;100
11.4;Serenity at any price;102
11.5;Drugs to help the mentally ill;102
11.6;The search for the wonder drug;103
11.7;Treatment by shock;105
11.8;Treatment by stimulation;106
11.9;Treatment by sleep;106
11.10;Treatment by brain surgery;107
12;Chapter 8. Gare in the Hospital;110
12.1;As it used to be;111
12.2;'Institutional neurosis'
;112
12.3;Not a disease but a lack;112
12.4;The 'new look' in mental hospitals
;113
12.5;Hospitals with a positive outlook;114
12.6;The therapeutic community;115
12.7;Work is treatment;117
12.8;Healing through art and music;118
12.9;Mental care in other countries;119
12.10;Day hospitals;120
12.11;What the day hospitals should do;121
12.12;Can we get rid of all mental hospitals?;123
13;Chapter 9. How the Community Can Help;126
13.1;Creating the right atmosphere;127
13.2;Official help;128
13.3;A new deal from the Local Authority;130
13.4;Keeping house;131
13.5;Every district its own psychiatric service;132
13.6;Patients help each other;134
13.7;Everyone working together;136
13.8;How other countries look after the mentally ill;136
14;Chapter 10. The Search for Sanity;140
14.1;Handling human problems in a human way;141
14.2;Mental hygiene;142
14.3;Kindness to mothers, and others;143
14.4;Help in good time;144
14.5;A new outlook for the specialists;145
14.6;The view of the World Health Organization;147
14.7;Patients make good teachers;147
14.8;Students also need good mental health;148
14.9;Good mental health, tomorrow;149
15;BIBLIOGRAPHY;152