Mental health policy and practice
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The book provides a well documented basic overview of the main developments and dilemmas in the field. It contains eleven chapters, the first sketching conceptualisations of mental illness and public health issues over time, especially the divide between the medical model and the social causation model developed in antipsychiatry. The second chapter resumes developments in policy making on strategies to contain mental illness in the community. Whereas at first socalled lunatics were not excluded from society, in the eighteenth century asylums were built and the number of admissions rose to great heights; de-institutionalisation and community based treatment were modern developments for patients with mental illness.
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