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Recovering from severe mental illness is one of the most terrifying human experiences in health care. Often conventional rehabilitation approaches focus on helping the patient with his or her symptoms and maximising the external world through supportive interventions. However, often little attention is paid to the internal world of the patient. This subjective experience of recovery is the focus of this book. It describes a particular psychoanalytic model that best captures this distressful state of mind and suggests particular processes that have to be put in place to ensure the patient gets the best opportunity to have his or her fears and hopes addressed. The book also addresses "real world" issues such as management, leadership and training, as well as highlighting key research findings from relevant studies. Outcome measures are suggested that could be adopted to measure the benefits of this particular approach. The chapters give many clinical, organisational and research descriptions from the real world of psychiatry and social care.

Mentally ill --- Rehabilitation.

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This open access book explores the history of pellagra, a vitamin deficiency disease brought about by a shift in agriculture to maize, and which was first identified in Italy in the 1760s. With a focus on the insanity that was caused by the disease, the authors examine how thousands of patients were treated in Italian psychiatric asylums, shedding light on the sufferer's point of view. Setting pellagrous insanity in a wider context of man-made or societal (anthropogenic) disease, where poverty, diet and disease meet, the book contributes to the history of medicine and science, the history of psychiatry, economic and social history, agrarian history, and food and nutrition history. Additionally, the authors aim to transnationalise Italian history by making comparisons with related issues, such as tertiary syphilis in the UK. Drawing from a wide range of printed and archival sources, including the writings of Italian medical investigators, the book examines how medical and scientific research was carried out during the long nineteenth century and the uncertainties that this engendered, in terms of classification, explanation, diagnosis and treatment. Offering a unique perspective on an endemic illness which came to be known as the disease of the four ds: dermatitis; diarrhea; dementia; and death, this book provides an engaging account of one of the most perplexing causes of mental illness.

Mentally ill --- Care

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Dette er en vitenskapelig monografi basert på avhandlingen "Om å holde noe av et barns liv i sin hånd. Samtaler mellom profesjonelle og barn som har psykisk syke eller rusavhengige foreldre: et etisk og narrativt perspektiv". Tema er barns deltakelse i samtalegrupper for barn som har psykisk syke eller rusavhengige foreldre. Boken bygger på erfaringer fra deltakende observasjon i sju forskjellige samtalegrupper samt oppfølgende samtaler med barna som deltok og de profesjonelle som ledet gruppene. Formålet har vært å undersøke hvilke muligheter barn i samtalegrupper får til å stå fram som selvstendige meningssøkende og meningsskapende subjekter. Problemstilling er: Hvordan blir barns erfaringer håndtert i samtalegrupper for barn som har psykisk syke eller rusavhengige foreldre? Boken er gitt en vitenskapsfilosofisk forankring i en avdekkende hermeneutikk. Dette har lagt føringer for å vektlegge betydningen av det likeverdige og gjensidige i samhandlingene mellom de deltakende barna og de profesjonelle som har ledet samtalegruppene. I den forbindelse er det sentralt å utforske hvordan de profesjonelle, i konkrete samhandlingssituasjoner, skaper rom for det enkelte barns perspektiv ved å sette sine egne perspektiver i spill, og hvordan de ikke gjør det. Den avdekkende hermeneutikken har også gjort det mulig å identifisere noe av det som ikke ble satt ord på, eller som bare så vidt ble antydet eller nevnt, i samhandlingene mellom de profesjonelle og barna, men som likevel kan ha hatt stor betydning for den meningen som ble dannet. Erfaringene og observasjonene fra samtalegruppene er formidlet gjennom ni fortellinger. Disse beskriver konkrete samtaler og aktiviteter der barn formidler egne erfaringer, tanker og følelser, uten at disse blir gjort til videre tema i samhandlingen. Gjennom fortolkning av disse fortellingene kommer det fram en forståelse av at samtalegrupper for barn med psykisk syke eller rusavhengige foreldre synes å være en praksis der barns egne erfaringer av foreldrenes psykiske sykdommer og rusavhengighet i begrenset grad blir gjort til tema. Gjennom en teoretisk diskusjon der det som har foregått i de partikulære samhandlingssituasjonene, blir løftet opp på et mer generelt meningsbærende nivå, er det søkt en dypere forståelse for dette fenomenet.

Mentally ill --- Family relationships.

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Incompetency is loss of the ability to make, and act on, your own decisions and with the aging of North America's population, it is increasingly widespread. It can happen to anyone and many people want to plan for its possibility in order to ensure their own care and protection. Incompetency can cause great, but often avoidable, suffering and emotional anguish to those afflicted by it, as well as the relatives and friends who care for them. People in health care, financial services, and law must deal with clients whose competency in some, or all, matters can be questioned. Addressing the needs of incompetent people, or planning for its possibility, requires knowledge about what incompetency is, how to recognize and react to it, and what kinds of professional advice to seek. This book is a practical, focused guide to thinking about incompetency, as useful to the layman as to those who perform, or refer clients to, competency assessments. Addressing the needs of incompetent people, or planning for its possibility, requires knowledge about what incompetency is, how to recognize and react to it, and what kinds of professional advice to seek. This book is a practical, focused guide to thinking about incompetency, as useful to the layman as to those who perform, or refer clients to, competency assessments. Michel Silberfeld, a doctor, and Arthur Fish, a lawyer, draw on their experience at a competency clinic, citing fictional but realistic case studies and offering many concrete examples. The clinic is multidisciplinary and founded on the principle that competency is not simply a medical or legal concept, but rather a complex phenomenon that has medical, social, legal, and ethical dimensions. Silberfeld and Fish follow the same principle in the advice they offer. There are fundamental problems associated with incompetency and many similarities among the laws and social policies that apply to incompetent people in North America. This book is not a substitute for qualified professional help but it is a practical guide to thinking about incompetency, based on the premise that the best source of personal empowerment is knowledge and understanding.

Mentally ill older people --- Mentally ill --- Care. --- Care and treatment

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Handbook of Conceptualization and Treatment of Child Psychopathology

Child psychopathology --- Mentally ill children