In this illuminating multidisciplinary reference, expert scholars explore the culture of mental illness from the non-clinical perspectives of sociology, history, psychology, epidemiology, economics, public health policy, and finally, the mental health patients themselves.

Table of Contents

• List of Articles
• Reader's Guide
• About the Editor
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• Chronology
• Volume 1
• A
• Acculturation
• Adolescence
• Afghanistan
• Age
• Ageism
• Agoraphobia
• Alcoholism
• Algeria
• Alzheimer's Disease
• American Psychiatric Association
• American Psychological Association
• Amphetamines
• Anthropology
• Antidepressants
• Antipsychiatry
• Antisocial Behavior
• Anxiety, Chronic
• Architecture
• Argentina
• Art and Artists
• Assessment Issues in Mental Health
• Asylums
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Atypical Antipsychotics
• Australia
• Autism
• B
• Bangladesh
• Barbiturates
• Benzodiazepines
• Bereavement
• Biological Psychiatry
• Bipolar Disorder
• Board and Care Homes
• Brazil
• Burma (Myanmar)
• Business and Workplace Issues
• C
• Canada
• Care, Sociology of
• Case Managers
• Case Records
• Children
• China
• Chronic Pain
• Chronicity
• Clinical Psychologists, Training of
• Clinical Psychology
• Clinical Sociology
• Clinical Trials
• Clozapine
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Cognitive Disorder
• Colombia
• Commitment Laws
• Community Mental Health Centers
• Community Psychiatry
• Competency and Credibility
• Compulsory Treatment
• Conduct, Unwanted
• Congo, Democratic Republic of the
• Consumer-Survivor Movement
• Costs of Mental Illness
• Courts
• Creativity
• Critical Theory
• Cross-National Prevalence Estimates
• Cultural Prevalence
• D
• Dangerousness
• Deinstitutionalization
• Delirium
• Delusions
• Dementia
• Dementia Praecox
• Denmark
• Department of Health and Human Services, U.S.
• Depression
• Deviance
• Diagnosis
• Diagnosis in Cross-National Context
• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
• Diazepam
• Disability
• Disasters
• Dissociative Disorders
• Dopamine
• Double Bind Theory
• Drug Abuse
• Drug Abuse: Cause and Effect
• Drug Development
• Drug Treatments, Early
• Drugs and Deinstitutionalization
• DSM-III
• DSM-IV
• DSM-5
• Durkheim, Émile
• E
• Eating Disorders
• Economics
• Egypt
• Electroconvulsive Therapy
• Electrotherapy
• Emergency Rooms
• Emotions and Rationality
• Employment
• Environmental Causes
• Epidemiology
• Ethical Issues
• Ethiopia
• Ethnicity
• Ethnopsychiatry
• Eugenics
• Euthanasia
• Exclusion
• F
• Family Support
• Fiction
• Food and Drug Administration, U.S.
• Forensic Psychiatry
• Foucault, Michel
• France
• Freud, Sigmund
• G
• Gender
• Genetics
• Geography of Madness
• Germany
• Global Mental Health Movement
• Globalization
• Grandiosity
• Group Homes
• H
• Hallucinations
• Health Insurance
• Help-Seeking Behavior
• Homelessness
• Hospitals for the Criminally Insane
• Human Rights
• Huntington's Disease
• Hydrotherapy
• Hypersexuality
• Hypnosis
• Hysteria
• I
• Iatrogenic Illness
• Identity
• Imperial Psychiatry
• Impulse Control Disorder
• Incidence and Prevalence
• India
• Indonesia
• Inequality
• Informed Consent
• Insanity Defense
• Insulin Coma Therapy
• Integration, Social
• Intelligence
• Intelligibility
• International Classification of Diseases
• International Comparisons
• Internet and Social Media
• Interpersonal Dynamics
• Iran
• Iraq
• Italy
• J
• Jails and Prisons
• Japan
• Jung, Carl Gustav
• K
• Kenya
• Kleptomania
• Kraepelin, Emil
• L
• Labeling
• Lacan, Jacques
• Laing, Ronald David
• Law and Mental Illness
• Lay Conception of Illness
• Learning Disorders
• Legislation
• Life Course
• Life Expectancy Trends
• Life Skills
• Lithium
• Lobotomy
• M
• Malaria Therapy
• Malpractice
• Mania
• Marginalization
• Marital Status
• Marketing
• Mass Media
• Measuring Mental Health
• Mechanical Restraint
• Medicalization, History of
• Medicalization, Sociology of
• Medicare and Medicaid
• Melancholia
• Mental Health America
• Mental Hygiene
• Mental Illness Defined: Historical Perspectives
• Mental Illness Defined: Psychiatric Perspectives
• Mental Illness Defined: Sociological Perspectives
• Mental Institutions, History of
• Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
• Mesmerism
• Mexico
• Migration
• Milieu Therapy
• Military Psychiatry
• Mind–Body Relationship
• Minor Tranquilizers
• Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor (MAOI) Antidepressants
• Mood Disorders
• Moral Insanity
• Morocco
• Mortality
• Movies and Madness
• Munchausen Syndrome
• Volume 2
• N
• National Alliance on Mental Illness
• National Institute of Mental Health
• Nazi Extermination Policies
• Neighborhood Quality
• Neo-Kraepelinian Psychiatry
• Neurasthenia
• Neurosyphilis
• Neurotransmitters and Psychiatry
• Nigeria
• “Normal”: Definitions and Controversies
• Nursing
• Nursing Homes
• O
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
• P
• Pakistan
• Panic Disorder
• Pathological Gambling
• Patient Accounts of Illness
• Patient Activism
• Patient Rights
• Peer Identification
• Personality Disorder, Borderline
• Personality Disorders
• Pervasive Developmental Disorders
• Pharmaceutical Industry
• Philippines
• Phobias
• Placebo Effect
• Poland
• Police, Sociology of
• Policy: Federal Government
• Policy: Medical
• Policy: Military
• Policy: Police
• Policy: State Government
• Polypharmacy
• Popular Conceptions
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Prevention
• Primary Care
• Prison Psychiatry
• Prozac
• Psychiatric Social Work
• Psychiatric Training
• Psychiatric Treatment, Pathways to
• Psychiatry and Neurology
• Psychiatry and Neuroscience
• Psychiatry and Sexual Orientation
• Psychoanalysis, History and Sociology of
• Psychoanalysis and Literary Theory
• Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture
• Psychoanalysis and the Social Sciences
• Psychoanalytic Treatment
• Psychopharmacological Research
• Psychopharmacology
• Psychosocial Adaptation
• Psychosomatic Illness, Cultural Comparisons of
• Psychosomatic Illness, History and Sociology of
• Public Education Campaigns
• R
• Race
• Race and Ethnic Groups, American
• Racial Categorization
• Randomized Controlled Trial
• Rationality
• Refrigerator Mother
• Religion
• Religiously Based Therapies
• Reserpine
• Right to Refuse Treatment
• Right to Treatment
• Ritalin
• Role Strains
• Russia
• S
• Sadomasochism
• Schizoaffective Disorder
• Schizophrenia
• Scientology
• Self-Esteem
• Self-Help
• Self-Injury
• Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors
• Service Delivery
• Service User Involvement
• Sex
• Sex Differences
• Sexual Surgery
• Shell Shock
• Side Effects
• Sleep Disorders
• Social Causation
• Social Class
• Social Control
• Social Isolation
• Social Security
• Social Support
• Sociopathic Disorders
• Somatization of Distress
• South Africa
• South Korea
• Spain
• Spiritual Healing
• State Budgets
• Stereotypes
• Sterilization
• Stigma
• Stigma: Patient's View
• Stress
• Sudan
• Suicide
• Suicide: Patient's View
• Szasz, Thomas
• T
• Tanzania
• Tardive Dyskinesia
• Television
• Thailand
• Theater
• Therapeutics, History of
• Therapy, Group
• Therapy, Individual
• Thorazine and First-Generation Antipsychotics
• Tourette Syndrome
• Trade in Lunacy
• Trauma: Patient's View
• Trauma, Psychology of
• Treatment
• Tricyclic Antidepressants
• Turkey
• U
• Uganda
• Ukraine
• Unemployment
• United Kingdom
• United States
• Unquiet Mind, An
• Urban Versus Rural
• V
• Veterans
• Veterans' Hospitals
• Vietnam
• Violence
• Visual Arts
• Voluntary Commitment
• Vulnerability
• W
• War
• Welfare
• Women
• Work–Family Balance
• World Health Organization
• Glossary
• Resource Guide
• Appendix: Federal Reports on Mental Illness
• Photo Credits