Making Mental Health: A Critical History

Title: Making Mental Health: A Critical History
Creator: Roberts-Pedersen, Elizabeth
Relation: Critical Approaches to Health
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429351464
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: book
Date: 2025
Description: Making Mental Health: A Critical History historicises mental health by examining the concept from the ‘madness’ of the late nineteenth century to the changing ideas about its contemporary concerns and status. It argues that a critical approach to the history of psychiatry and mental health shows them to constitute a dual clinical-political project that gathered pace over the course of the twentieth century and continues to resonate in the present. Drawing on scholarship across several areas of historical inquiry as well as historical and contemporary clinical literature, the book uses a thematic approach to highlight decisive moments that demonstrate the stakes of this engagement in Anglo-American contexts.
Description: 1
Subject: mental health; psychiatry; contemporary clinical literature; historical clinical literature; psychiatric; medical humanities
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1518593
Identifier: uon:57332
Identifier: ISBN:9780367367855
Rights: x
Language: eng