Myths, Madness and the Family The Impact of Mental Illness on Families

"David Jones has written a compelling book about the complex issues entailed in being family members of sufferers from mental illness. The book provides us with a critical appraisal of the sociological and psychological conceptual layers and the policy context necessary for understanding these...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, David W.
Other Authors: Campling, Jo (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Macmillan Education UK 2002, 2002
Edition:1st ed. 2002
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 02875nmm a2200265 u 4500
001 EB001384579
003 EBX01000000000000000907544
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 170406 ||| eng
020 |a 9781403914026 
100 1 |a Jones, David W. 
245 0 0 |a Myths, Madness and the Family  |h Elektronische Ressource  |b The Impact of Mental Illness on Families  |c by David W. Jones ; edited by Jo Campling 
250 |a 1st ed. 2002 
260 |a London  |b Macmillan Education UK  |c 2002, 2002 
300 |a 216 p  |b online resource 
505 0 |a the Significance of Shame and Identity -- The Myth of the Family -- Managing Myths: Reaching New Understandings -- Concluding Discussion -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index 
653 |a Psychiatry 
653 |a Psychiatry 
700 1 |a Campling, Jo  |e [editor] 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b SBA  |a Springer Book Archives -2004 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-1402-6?nosfx=y  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 616.89 
520 |a "David Jones has written a compelling book about the complex issues entailed in being family members of sufferers from mental illness. The book provides us with a critical appraisal of the sociological and psychological conceptual layers and the policy context necessary for understanding these issues, all too often missing in other books written about this subject... Through in-depth interviews of forty carers, coached in a way which enables the carers to talk in their own voice, we get the rare opportunity of understanding the world of these carers...In letting the carers speak Jones is enabling all of us to listen to them with the respect they deserve... All of us - but especially mental health professionals, policy makers and researchers - need to learn from the methodology utilised in this study, and the content of the rich experiential seam Jones exposes, as to how to listen better to carers, and on which themes to focus in our working partnership with users and carers." - Professor Shulamit Ramon, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge This book fills a gap in our knowledge about the experiences of families of people suffering from severe mental illness. Original research material is used to support claims that families are struggling with complex feelings such as loss, anger and shame. It is also argued that the ideas families themselves hold about mental illness form an important part of the cultural world in which mental illnesses are understood. This stimulating book challenges many conventional assumptions about family relationships by arguing that they have to be understood in terms of 'myths' that bring a certain amount of order to complex areas of emotional life. The author argues that families if properly understood, can provide significant support for people with severe mental illness