Turning Mental Health into Social Action.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- A note on referencing -- 1 The hidden histories of clinical and therapeutic psychology -- Why did psychology appear at the end of the 1800s? Some social and political contexts -- The social/economic/political context of the birth of psychology -- The practical origins of 'psychological' therapies and psychiatry -- Hippolyte Bernheim and the Nancy School -- Jean-Martin Charcot -- Pierre Janet -- Sigmund Freud -- Since Freud -- Governments and the new psychiatry and psychology -- Kraepelin and the DSM -- Psychiatry and drug treatments -- Cognitive behaviour therapy -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 Contextualizing 'mental health' behaviours -- The new contextual version for understanding people -- Applying this to mental health -- More behaviours are shaped by bad life situations than just the 'mental health' behaviours -- Contextualizing thinking and perceiving for 'mental health' -- Alternative variations on 'thinking' and 'thought disorders' -- Traditional views of thinking -- Contextualizing some experiences of variations from 'normal' thinking -- The main research question of this book -- References -- 3 What are the bad situations that lead to the 'mental health' behaviours and other outcomes? -- The role of bad situations in producing 'mental health' issues and other behaviours -- Three guides to help see bad situations as the contexts shaping many difficult behaviours -- Guide 1: some observable contexts of bad situations and different 'solutions' -- Guide 2: some general life conflict situations that can become bad situations -- Guide 3: the contexts of bad situations and their severity or pain -- What are the bad situations? -- Contexts for bad situations -- Points to note.

The cases of 'trauma' and more blurry distinctions -- Ways that the 'solutions' shaped by bad situations can affect a person's contexts -- Societal contexts for bad situations -- Bad situations and how they can affect language use: breaking down beliefs, reality, and identity -- The Power Threat Meaning Framework approach -- Conclusion: social actions for change -- References -- 4 Contextualizing 'mental health' symptoms without diagnoses: Initial explorations -- What are the 'mental health' behaviours? -- Contextualizing the DSM behaviours -- Group 1: general behaviours -- Preamble: what does being 'general' tell us? -- 1. Very general behaviours -- 2. General changes to mood presentation -- 3. Actions unusual -- 5. Thinking and talking problematic: general -- Group 2: social behaviours -- 4. Social relationships problematic -- 5. Thinking and talking problematic: talking about social relationships -- Group 3: language and discourse issues -- Thinking and talking: introduction -- 6. Thinking and talking problematic: specific -- 7. Thinking and talking problematic: identity talk -- 9. Thinking and talking problematic: anxiety and fear -- Summary -- Functional links needed -- References -- 5 How can we change behaviour by changing local bad situations? -- Changing environments to change behaviour -- Local issues of resources and social relationships -- Trying to prevent local resource and social relationship issues becoming bad situations in the first place -- Life problems with observable local resource and social relationship issues -- Social workers -- Nurses and mental health nurses -- Psychiatrists and psychologists -- Social anthropologists, community psychologists, counsellors, and life coaches -- What do Western therapists currently do? -- What happens when you cannot talk about the problems? -- References.

6 How can we change language use and thinking in 'mental health'? -- Some points about thoughts in modern Western therapy -- Other interventions for 'mental health' issues involving talking and thinking -- Prayers and praying -- The social contexts for praying, chanting, and recitation -- Music -- Some examples and quotes -- References -- 7 How can we change behaviours shaped by the bad situations produced by societal structures of modernity? -- Bad life problems with hidden bad situations but not considered 'mental health' issues -- Bad life problems with hidden bad situations that are not considered to be 'mental health' issues -- Bad life problems with hidden bad societal situations -- The life conditions produced by modernity -- Effects of capitalism and how to help individuals and groups survive -- Effects of bureaucracy and neoliberalism and how to help individuals and groups survive -- References -- 8 Interventions for 'mental health' symptoms produced by colonization and patriarchal bad situations -- Indigenous approaches: colonization and its aftermath -- What were the bad situations for Indigenous peoples created by colonization? -- What behaviours arise from these bad colonization situations and how might we change them? -- Indigenous interventions -- Feminist approaches: fixing the bad societal situations of women -- References -- Index.

This book deconstructs modern talking therapies, and frames mental health in a wider social context to show how societal structures restrict our opportunities. It is part of a trilogy which offers a new way of doing psychology focusing on people's social environments as determining their behaviour, rather than internal attributions.

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