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This Reader presents a fresh look at mental health, following on from the hugely popular Mental Health Matters. It provides new and exciting user perspectives across the full range of mental health issues. This is a rich and diverse resource for all students and practitioners of mental health.In a collection of more than 50 readings, Mental Health Still Matters reflects the wide diversity of views about how best to understand and explain mental health and distress. Drawing on writings from a range of academic sources, as well as the rich and compelling stories of mental health service users themselves, it provides a sharp challenge to traditional understandings of mental illness and aims to illuminate future thinking, policy and practice. As a sister volume to the best-selling Mental Health Matters, it combines classic writings about mental health theories, perspectives and practices from psychiatry, sociology, psychology and service users, alongside newly commissioned readings. The book is divided into four parts: / Part I discusses and critiques mental health theory in an exploration of contemporary debates. / Part II considers social inclusion as a goal for mental health services and reviews aspects of the services in which inequality continues to dominate. / Part III offers accounts of mental distress by service users, many of whom have used their experience to become teachers, researchers and innovators in mental health work.; / Part IV considers some of the challenges faced by practitioners alongside professional responses to the major changes we are seeing in the landscape of mental health. This is an important and innovative collection of readings which has strong cross-disciplinary relevance and appeal. It is essential reading for everyone studying, training or practising in the field of mental health, whether your background is in social studies, health science, medicine or psychology.General Introduction PART I: DEBATES AND THEORIES Introduction; J.S.R.Leach Diverse Approaches to Mental Health and Distress; J.S.R.Leach Roll over Kraepelin; R.Bentall Reclaiming the Humanity in Personality Disorder; K.Wright, K.Haigh L.Johnstone The Distinction Between Mental and Physical Illness; R.E.Kendall The Service User/Survivor Movement; P.Campbell Thinking about 'Mental Health': Towards a Social Model; P.Beresford Recovery: The Lived Experience of Rehabilitation; P.E.Deegan Spirituality and Mental Health; S.Fernando Big Boys don't Cry? Mental Health and the Politics of Gender; P.Thomas Madness and Misogyny: My Mother and Myself; J.M.Ussher Strategies for Promoting the Mental Health of Populations; E.Lahtinen, N.Joubert, J.Raeburn M.McCormick Mental Health and Inequality; R.Gomm The Relevance of Moral Treatment to Contemporary Mental Health Care; A.Borthwick, C.Holman, D.Kennard, M.McFetridge, K.Messruther J.Repper H.Spandler (Mis)representing Mental Distress?; M.Walsh Why are we not getting any closer to preventing suicide?; D.DeLeo Mental Health, Mental Disorder, Risk and Public Protection; H.Kemshall The Challenge of Shared Care; M.Flanagan Black Communities, Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System; D.Brown Reflections on British Forensic Psychiatry in 2003; J.Gunn Social Capital and Mental Health; M.Webber PART III: SERVICE USERS' EXPERIENCES AND PERSPECTIVES Introduction; J.Wallcraft Experiences of 'Care' in Mental Health; J.Henderson Two Accounts of Mental Distress; J.O'Hagan Life Stories 1 - Wresting his own future; P.Barham Life Stories 2 - Ron Coleman; J.Laurance Hearing voices; I.Leudar, P.Thomas, J.Thomas, J.Holloway A.Williams Two Hours Fifty Five Minutes; V.Dewan Are We Who We Say We Are - or Who You Think We Are?; P.Trivedi What Black Women want from the Mental Health Services; P.Chambers Harm Minimisation: Limiting the Damage of Self-injury; L.Pembroke My Right to Choose; A.Wells Reclaiming Mad Experience; R.May Service Users' Accounts of Finding Work; Anon J.Wallcraft From Passive Subjects to Equal Partners; P.Trivedi A.Faulkner T.Heller P.Bracken N.Bowles, P.Dodds, D.Hackney, C.Sunderland T.Freeman J.Moncrieff All you need is Cognitive Behaviour Therapy?; J.Holmes Recovery from Mental Illness as an Emergent Concept and Practice in Australia and the UK; S.Ramon, D.Healy M.Duker J.Shackman Still Doing Being Human; T.Heller Index