| Description |
1 online resource (1 PDF file (xiii, 215 pages)) : illustrations, portrait. |
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text file |
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PDF |
| Series |
Mental health in historical perspective |
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Mental health in historical perspective.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1: Psychological illness and general practice -- 2: Mental health at work: misconceptions and missed opportunities -- 3: Men, alcohol and coping -- 4: Pharmacological solutions -- 5: Special cases: sick doctors and ethnic presentations of psychological illness. |
| Summary |
Statistically, women appear to suffer more frequently from depressive and anxiety disorders, featuring more regularly in primary care figures for consultations, diagnoses and prescriptions for psychotropic medication. This has been consistently so throughout the post-war period with current figures suggesting that women are approximately twice more likely to suffer from affective disorders than men. However, this book suggests that the statistical landscape reveals only part of the story. Currently, 75 per cent of suicides are among men, and this trend can also be traced back historically to data that suggests this has been the case since the beginning of the twentieth-century. This book suggests that male psychological illness was in fact no less common, but that it emerged in complex ways and was understood differently in response to prevailing cultural and medical forces. The book explores a host of medical, cultural and social factors that raise important questions about historical and current perceptions of gender and mental illness. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (OAPEN, viewed July 6, 2016). |
| Local Note |
Promoted: Local to Global Cooperative Springer Open Access eBooks |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Men -- Mental health -- 20th century.
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Men -- Mental health -- History.
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Mental Disorders -- history.
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Men.
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Sex Factors.
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History, 20th Century.
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United Kingdom.
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Psychiatry.
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British & Irish history.
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Gender studies: men.
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Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000.
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Gender Studies.
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Social History.
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Europe/Great Britain.
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Mental Health.
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Men -- Mental health.
(OCoLC)fst01016015
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Haggett, Ali. History of male psychological disorders in Britain, 1945-1980 9781137448873 (OCoLC)909320409 |
| ISBN |
9781137448880 (e-PDF) |
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1137448881 (e-PDF) |
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9781137448897 (ePub) |
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113744889X (ePub) |
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1137448873 (print) |
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9781137448873 (print) |
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9781137448873 (hardback) |
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9781137556264 (paperback) |
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1137556269 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
10.1007/978-1-137-44888-0 doi |
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10.1057/9781137448880 doi |
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