Understanding Mental Distress

Reviews / Votes

"This excellent volume is an important theoretically informed contribution that exposes the gap between the progressive narrative of community care, based on the recognition of individual rights as citizens and the current bureaucratic models of service provision." Critical Social Policy "This book provides an important contribution to the debate about what mental health services should look like, who should provide them and how, and it should be required reading for those engaged in those debates in both academic and practice spheres." Sociology of Health & Illness "This important book is a must read for mental health nurses and other practitioners who feel immense strain in their everyday work but can struggle to make meaningful sense of their predicament and, hence, identify what to do for the best." International Journal of Mental Health Nursing "A rich, theoretically informed account of what is currently shaping practice in our mental health services. A key text for those concerned with understanding, challenging and transforming these services to benefit those who use them and those who work in them." Ann Davis, University of Birmingham "Putting both workers and service users at its heart, in this volume Rich Moth makes a compelling case that structural and ideological forces continue to limit the possibility of genuine mental health care ... Highly recommended." Helen Spandler, University of Central Lancashire and Editor, Asylum Magazine