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1999 · 34126 — Farmington Connecticut U.S.A.: S Karger Pub. New. 1999. Hardcover. 3805568460 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- Pages: XIV 246 Figures: 36 Tables: 34 -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction Social Representations of Mental Illness Attitudes toward Mental Illness among the General Public and Professionals Social Representations and Change 1 Mental Illness as Metaphor 13 Social Representations of Mental Illness among the Public 20 The Image of Mental Illness in Switzerland 29 Public Attitudes towards Deviant Situations in Daily Life: Intervention Proposed 38 The General Public's Cognitive and Emotional Perception of Mental Illnesses: An Alternative to Attitude-Research 56 'Cooperating' 'Fighting against' or 'Letting Go' in the Therapeutic Context: Social Logic of Parents with Psychologically Disturbed Children 72 Differentiating between the Professions of Psychologists and Psychiatrists: A Field Study in Vizcaya 85 Changing Attitudes towards Mental Illness and Destigmatization One of the Last Obstacles to Better Mental Health Care: The Stigma of Mental Illness 96 Public Education for Community Care: A New Approach 105 Combatting the Alienation Experienced by People with Mental Illness 118 Group Therapy and Attitudinal Changes to Mental Illness in Medical Students 129 Stigmatization and Destigmatization: The Point of View of Psychiatric Patients and Their Families 138 Attitudes towards Psychiatric Treatment and Compliance Use and Misuse of Pharmacological Substances: The Question of Noncompliance 143 The Public's Attitude towards Drug Treatment of Schizophrenia 152 Determining Factors and the Effects of Attitudes towards Psychotropic Medication 162 Attitudes towards Psychotropic Medication among Medical Students 187 Measuring Attitudes toward Psychiatric Medication among Persons with Serious Mental Illness 197 Psychoeducational Groups in Schizophrenic Patients 208 Neuroleptics: The Point of View of Consumers and Their Families 216 The Role of Communication and Physician-Patient Collaboration: Enhancing Adherence with Psychiatric Medication 222 Rethinking the Problem of Noncompliance in Chronic Mental Illness 231 Author Index 239 Subject Index 240. -- DESCRIPTION -- Negative moral judgements seem to have been a constant fixture in the way societies and cultures have regarded groups displaying deviant behavior. This is particularly true of the mentally ill. Stereotypes are most ingrained for mental pathologies with heightened visibility in society such as schizophrenia. Preconceived notions about danger occult powers and mysterious malevolence which hover over the illness contribute to the total debasement of the patient. Persons suffering from other forms of mental illness are stigmatized to a lesser degree. But the threat is real that labeling will extend to every endeavor linked to mental illness: care facilities professionals therapies in general and psychotropic medication in particular. Lay belief in the existence of important side-effects to this medication and public fears about the risk of addiction form the basis of very restricted or even hostile attitudes towards it and result in weak compliance. Inversely psychotherapy now seems widely accepted and different forms of intervention have contributed to de-stigmatizing psychiatric illness and to stop the exclusion of patients. This book is of interest not only to psychiatrists but also to mental health workers psychologists social scientists and social workers who wish to alter common precepts and prejudices regarding psychiatric disorders. -- with a bonus offer-- . S Karger Pub hardcover