SOCIOL 703: Sociology of Mental Health

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2019 (Semester I) Course Outline

Sessions: Tuesdays, 2-5pm (1-11 Short Street, Room 201)

 Lecturer: Dr Bruce Cohen

Office: HSB 934, Department of Sociology

Office Hours: Tuesdays, 11.30am-1.30pm

Tel: 373-7599, extn. 89497

E-mail: b.cohen@auckland.ac.nz

General course information

This course is taught through a weekly three hour session consisting of both a lecture and discussion (though at postgraduate level, the two are very much combined). The University’s general expectation is that each postgraduate course requires an average of twenty hours work per week. This includes attendance at each session, reading of the required texts, and additional study towards reaching the learning outcomes, and successfully completing the related assignments.

Course objectives

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

  • Critically evaluate medicine’s and psychiatry’s focus on behaviour considered ‘sick’ or ‘abnormal’ as part of the more general process of modernity.
  • Critically assess medicine and psychiatry as social, economic, cultural and political -as well as medical- projects.
  • Critically evaluate the profession of psychiatry through use of relevant social and sociological theory.
  • Place medicine and psychiatry within its wider social, cultural, economic and political contexts.
  • Critically debate current key topics within the sociology of medicine and mental health.

To achieve the course objectives you will need to:

  • Attend the weekly sessions.
  • Read and understand the compulsory readings.
  • Take an active role in the weekly sessions.
  • Research your assignments thoroughly, drawing on appropriate literature and social theory in the area.
  • Complete your assignments on time.

Course assessments

The assignments for this course are: First Essay Proposal (10%), First Essay (40%), Second Essay Proposal (10%), and Second Essay (40%)

Note: It is strongly recommended that students discuss their proposed essay topics with the Lecturer well in advance of the substantive writing periods.

Summary of deadlines/assignments:

  • By 6pm on Friday 22 March: Upload* First Essay Proposal (10%): 1,000 word proposal for a critical essay on the history of psychiatry using a topic of your own choosing.
  • By 6pm on Monday 15 April: Upload* First Essay (40%): 5,000 word socio-historical essay on psychiatry using a topic of your own choosing.
  • By 6pm on Friday 10 May: Upload* Second Essay Proposal (10%): 1,000 word proposal for a project essay on a sociology of mental health topic of your own choosing.
  • By 6pm on Wednesday 5 June: Upload* Second Essay (40%): 5,000 word project essay on a sociology of mental health topic of your own choosing.

*Please note that there is no physical hand-in of assignments for this course. Instead, all assignments must be uploaded to Turnitin via the SOCIOL 703 Campus page. Once marked, comments and feedback will be available through accessing your assignment on Turnitin.  

First Essay Proposal (10% of final mark)

Due by 6pm on Friday 22 March

A 1,000 word proposal for an essay on the history of psychiatry using a topic of your own choosing.

This assignment encourages you to plan your essay and carry out initial background research systematically and with a clear focus; the feedback you will receive from this assignment will help you successfully complete the essay itself.

See the ‘First Essay’ details below for the required focus of this assignment. The proposal should outline the rationale for undertaking this essay, including clarification as to why the topic chosen is sociologically relevant and useful to investigate. Central to the proposal will be a brief summation of your main argument – typically, this will include reference to the ‘official account’ (including the ‘official history’) on the topic as well as alternative views from sociological and associated scholars (including alterative/critical historical accounts). The proposal also needs to consider why the discussion in your essay is of relevance to contemporary study in the sociology of mental health. The structure of the proposal can vary, though some may wish to follow a typical structure used by academic journals for abstracts (e.g. introduction, background, results, discussion, conclusion, etc.).

First Essay (40% of final mark)

Due by 6pm on Monday 15 April

A 5,000 word socio-historical essay on psychiatry using a topic of your own choosing.

A critical grounding in the history of psychiatry is crucial to conceptualising the current character and status of psychiatry and the mental health system in western society. For this assignment you will need to choose a topic that allows you to explore the socio-historical development of psychiatric professionals as the experts within the field of mental health and/or their medical technologies/practices as appropriate responses to forms of mental illness. In this assignment you will need to include both ‘official’ and ‘alternative’ accounts of such histories. This means, including commentators who support a scientific view of psychiatry as ‘objective’, ‘progressive’, and truth-seeking, and those -especially from sociology and associated disciplines- who have questioned such ideas. You will also need to contextualise your account within the current workings of psychiatry and the mental health system, giving some implications from your study for the sociology of mental health.

Please be as specific as possible with the focus for your essay: ‘women and the medical gaze’, for example, is far too broad a topic for research, whereas an essay on ‘the medicalisation of the housework’ is much more likely to succeed.

Second Essay Proposal (10% of final mark)

Due by 6pm on Friday 10 May

A 1,000 word proposal for a project essay on a sociology of mental health topic of your own choosing.

This assessment has the same basic requirements as the ‘First Essay Proposal’ (see above), but please see ‘Second Essay’ details below for the required focus of the essay.

Second Essay (40% of final mark)

Due by 6pm on Wednesday 5 June

A 5,000 word project essay on a sociology of mental health topic of your own choosing.

Your essay must be on a topic or sub-topic from within the sociology of mental health, and must be on a substantially different topic to your first essay. You can choose something related to a topic we have covered on this course, but please feel free to develop your own ideas.

Again, narrow your topic and be quite specific about what you are proposing to study, including questions to answer in your work. Researching a topic as broad as ‘medication and mental health’, for example, is unlikely to succeed, whereas ‘Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) and productivity in the workplace’ is more likely to.  

Important notes on the completion of assessments

In line with International Sociological Association policy, the use of sexist, racist or homophobic language will not be tolerated on this course.

In completing your assignments successfully you should:

  • include a full title at the beginning of each assessment which clearly outlines your research topic;
  • demonstrate a clear structure within your first and second essays, including the clear marking/naming of different sections;
  • have a clear and specific research focus;
  • include specific thinkers, theorists, texts, sources and examples;
  • include a minimum of 20 academic references (e.g. journal articles, books, chapters) in both your first and second essays;
  • use good English, with appropriate punctuation, avoiding slang and abbreviations;
  • include a bibliography which contains all the references used in the main text of your assignments;
  • comply with APA or Harvard referencing styles;
  • include a word count total at the end of each assignment.

Please note that marks will be deducted for lateness, for being more than 10% under or over the word limit, and for poor referencing (both in-text and end reference list).

Please plan your background research and writing appropriately. I will no longer accept assessments for marking if they are over a week late – in these cases the work will receive no mark.

Please check your assignment matching score in advance on Turnitin (you can re-submit your assignment on Turnitin up until the official deadline date/time). Assignments with a match score higher of 40% or higher on Turnitin will receive no mark.

Course readings

Please see the SOCIOL 703 ‘Reading Lists’ page on Canvas to access the mandatory weekly course readings. There is no hard copy reader or text book for this course.

Additional readings and sources can be found in the library (see following section for additional weekly readings; the section after that has a large selection of sociology of mental health references and sources to help with your essay work).   

Lectures/discussions, required reading, and further reading

Week 1

Tuesday 5 March

Introduction: Contesting Health and Medicine

Required Reading

Illich I (2000) Limits to medicine: Medical nemesis, the expropriation of health. London: Marion Boyars. (chapter 1: ‘The Epidemics of Modern Medicine’, pp. 13-36)                                                                                

Further Reading

Klein R (2010) ‘What is health and how do you get it?’, in Metzl J M and Kirkland A (eds) Against health: How health became the new morality. New York: New York University Press, pp. 15-25.

Pilgrim D (2005) Key Concepts in Mental Health. London: SAGE, pp. 3-21.

Week 2

Tuesday 12 March

Sociological Theory I: Stress Theory and Structural Functionalism

Required Reading

Thoits P A (1999) ‘Sociological approaches to mental illness’, in Horwitz A V and Scheid T L (eds) A handbook for the study of mental health: Social contexts, theories, and systems (pp. 121-138). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Durkheim E (1952) Suicide: A study in sociology. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. (book 3, chapter 1: ‘The Social Element of Suicide’ pp. 297-325)

Further Reading

Busfield J (2000) ‘Introduction: Rethinking the Sociology of Mental Health’, Sociology of Health & Illness, 22 (5): 543-558.

Week 3

Tuesday 19 March

Sociological Theory II: Labelling, Social Constructionism, and Medicalisation

[First Essay Proposal due by 6pm on Friday 22 March]

Required Reading

Sjöström, S. (2018) ‘Labelling Theory’, in Cohen, B. M. Z. (Ed.) Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health (pp. 15-23). Abingdon: Routledge.

Szasz, T. S. (1970) Ideology and insanity: Essays on the psychiatric dehumanization of man. New York: Anchor Books. (chapter 2: ‘The Myth of Mental Illness’, pp. 12-24.

Further Reading

Conrad P (2007) The medicalization of society: On the transformation of human conditions into treatable disorders. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, pp. 3-19.

Goffman E (1961) Asylums: Essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates. London: Penguin, pp. 73-88.

Jutel A G (2011) Putting a name to it: Diagnosis in contemporary society. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, pp. 97-116.

Rosenhan D L (1975) ‘On Being Sane in Insane Places’, in Scheff T J (ed.) Labelling Madness. Engelwood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, pp. 54-74.

Scheff T J (1966) Being mentally ill: A sociological theory. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, pp.128-168.

Weitz R (2010) The sociology of health, illness, and health care: A critical approach, 5th edn. Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, pp. 115-122.

Week 4

Tuesday 26 March

Researching and Writing a Graduate Essay in Sociology

Required Reading

Cohen, B. M. Z. (2016) Psychiatric hegemony: A Marxist theory of mental illness. London: Palgrave Macmillan. (chapter 6, penultimate section, ‘Case Studies: Hysteria and Borderline Personality Disorder’, pp. 156–164)

(students will also be given a previous SOCIOL 703 project essay to mark for this session, check Canvas ‘Modules’ page, ‘Week 4’, for relevant files to download)

Further Reading

Becker H S (2007) Writing for social scientists: How to start and finish your thesis, book, or article, 2nd edn. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 1-25.

Cottrell S (2011) Critical thinking skills: Developing effective analysis and argument, 2nd edn. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-16.

Week 5

Tuesday 2 April

Official and Critical Histories of Psychiatry

Required Reading

Lieberman, J. A. (2015) Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry. New York: Little, Brown and Company. (chapter 7: ‘Out of the Wilderness: The Brain Revolution’, pp. 203-239).

Gomory, T. and Dunleavy, D. J. (2018) A critical history of ‘mental health care’ in the United States’, in Cohen, B. M. Z. (Ed.) Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health (pp. 117-125). Abingdon: Routledge.

Further Reading

Cooper D G (1967) Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry. London: Tavistock, pp.29-48.

Foucault M (1967) Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. London: Routledge, pp. 241-278.

Kosky R (1986) ‘From morality to madness: a reappraisal of the asylum movement in psychiatry 1800-1940’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 20, 180-7.

Kroll J and Bachrach B (1984) ‘Sin and mental illness in the Middle Ages’, Psychological Medicine, 14: 507-14.

Scull, A (1989) Social Order/Mental Disorder: Anglo-American psychiatry in historical perspective. Berkeley: University of California Press (see chapter on ‘Moral treatment reconsidered’).

Scull A (1993) The most solitary of afflictions: Madness and society in Britain, 1700-1900. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 1-45.

Scull A (2006) The insanity of place, the place of insanity: Essays on the history of psychiatry. New York: Routledge, pp. 129-149.

Sjöström S, Zetterberg L and Markström U (2011) ’Why community compulsion became the solution: Reforming mental health law in Sweden’, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 34(6), 419-428.

Week 6

Tuesday 9 April

Psychiatry Today: Biomedicine and Psychopharmacology

[First Essay due by 6pm on Monday 15 April]

Required Reading

Whitaker, R., and Cosgrove, L. (2015) Psychiatry Under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (chapter 4: ‘The Etiology of Mental Illness is Now Known’, pp. 45-62)

Further Reading

Breggin P (1993) Toxic Psychiatry. London: Fontana, pp. 240-265.

Dumont M P (1990) ‘In Bed Together at the Market: Psychiatry and the Pharmaceutical Industry’, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 60 (4): 484-485.

Kutchins H and Kirk S A (1997) Making us crazy: DSM - the psychiatric bible and the creation of mental disorders. New York: Free Press, pp. 21-54.

Moncrieff J, Hopker S and Thomas P (2005) ‘Psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry: who pays the piper? A perspective from the Critical Psychiatry Network’, Psychiatric Bulletin, 29: 84-5.

Moncrieff J (2009) The myth of the chemical cure: A critique of psychiatric drug treatment, revised edn. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 187-203.

Moynihan R and Cassels A (2005) Selling Sickness: How Drug Companies are turning us all into Patients. Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, pp. 22-40.

Mid-Semester Break: 13 April to 28 April

Week 7

Tuesday 30 April

Alternatives: Psychology and Talk Therapies

Required Reading

Moloney, P. (2013) The Therapy Industry: The Irresistible Rise of the Talking Cure, and why it doesn’t Work. London: Pluto Press. (chapter 6: ‘Sweet Medicine – Talking Therapy as Control’, pp. 117-138)

Further Reading

Davies, W. (2015) The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being. London: Verso.

Ehrenreich B (2009) Smile or die: How positive thinking fooled America and the world. London: Granta Books.

Masson J M (1989) Against therapy. London: Fontana, pp. 39-47.

Masson J M (1990) Final analysis: The making and unmaking of a psychoanalyst. New York: Ballantine, pp. 181-204.

Morrall P (2008) The trouble with therapy: Sociology and psychotherapy. Maidenhead: McGraw Hill/Open University Press, pp. 42-76.

Rogers A and Pilgrim D (2003) Mental health and inequality. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (see chapter 9, ‘Talking treatments: some are more equal than others’).

Rose N (1999) Governing the soul: The shaping of the private self, 2nd edition. London: Free Association Books, pp. 1-11.

Week 8

Tuesday 7 May

Sociological Theory III: Foucauldian and Marxist Theory

[Second Essay Proposal due by 6pm on Friday 10 May]

Required Reading

Cohen, B. M. Z. (2016) Psychiatric hegemony: A Marxist theory of mental illness. London: Palgrave Macmillan. (chapter 3:Psychiatric Hegemony: Mental Illness in Neoliberal Society‘, pp. 69–96)

Further Reading

Bracken P and Thomas P (2001) ‘Postpsychiatry: A new direction for mental health’, British Medical Journal, 322, 724-7.

Rose N (1996) ‘Psychiatry as a Political Science: Advanced Liberalism and the Administration of Risk’, History of the Human Sciences, 9 (2): 1-23. 

Samson C (1995) ‘The fracturing of medical dominance in British psychiatry?’ Sociology of Health and Illness, 17(2): 245-268.

Zetterberg L, Sjöström S and Markström U (2014). The Compliant Court – Procedural Fairness and Social Control in Compulsory Community Care, International Journal of Law & Psychiatry, 37(6): 543–550.

Week 9

Tuesday 14 May

Sociological Theory IV: Feminist Theory

Required Reading

Ussher J M (2011) The madness of women: Myth and experience. Hove: Routledge. (chapter 3: ‘Labelling Women as Mad: Regulating and Oppressing Women’, pp. 64-109)

Further Reading

Chesler P (2005) Woman and madness, rev. edn. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 1-44.

Ehrenreich B and English D (2005) For her own good: Two centuries of the experts’ advice to women, revised edn. New York: Anchor Books, pp. 111-154.

Masson J (1986) A Dark Science: Women, sexuality, and psychiatry in the nineteenth century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Rogers A and Pilgrim D (2010) A sociology of mental health and illness, 4th edn. Maidenhead: Open University Press, pp. 68-88.

Showalter E (1985) The female malady: Women, madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. New York: Pantheon, pp. 195-219.

Week 10

Tuesday 21 May

Sociological Theory V: Critical Race Theory

Required Reading

Moodley, R., Mujtaba, F. and Kleiman, S. (2018) ‘Critical race theory and mental health’, in Cohen, B. M. Z. (Ed.) Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health (pp. 79-88). Abingdon: Routledge.

Cohen, B. M. Z. (2014) ‘Passive-aggressive: Māori resistance and the continuance of colonial psychiatry in Aotearoa New Zealand’, Disability and the Global South, 1(2): 319-339.

Further Reading

Browne D (1995) ‘Sectioning: The black experience’, in Fernando S (ed.) Mental health in a multi-ethnic society. London: Routledge, pp. 62-72.

Fernando S (2010) Mental health, race and culture, 3rd edn. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 61-73.

Rogers A and Pilgrim D (2003) Mental Health and Inequality. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Turner C B and Kramer B M (1995) ‘Connections Between Racism and Mental Health’, in Willie C V, Rieker P P, Kramer B M and Brown B S (eds.) Mental Health, Racism and Sexism (pp. 3-25). Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Week 11

Tuesday 28 May

Illness Experience and Meaning

Required Reading

Bracken, P. and Thomas, P. (2018) ‘Reflections on critical psychiatry’, in Cohen, B. M. Z. (Ed.) Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health (pp. 98-106). Abingdon: Routledge.

Gorman, R. and LeFrançois, B. A. (2018) ‘Mad studies’, in Cohen, B. M. Z. (Ed.) Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health (pp. 107-114). Abingdon: Routledge.

Further Reading

Cohen B M Z (2015) Mental Health User Narratives: New perspectives on illness and recovery, rev. edn. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 132-164.

Geekie J and Read J (2009) Making Sense of Madness: Contesting the Meaning of Schizophrenia. Hove: Routledge, pp. 39-98.

Porter R (1996) A social history of madness: stories of the insane. London: Phoenix Giant.

Smith D E (1978) ‘“K is mentally ill”: the anatomy of a factual account’, Sociology, 12, 1, 23-53.

Week 12

Tuesday 4 June

[No lecture this week]

[Second Essay due by 6pm on Wednesday 5 June]

Sociology of Mental Health reference list and other resources

The University’s General Library has a large holding of books pertinent to the issues discussed in this course. A sizeable number of relevant texts are also located at other campus libraries, so please be prepared to spend some time putting in orders for cross-campus transfer of books necessary for your assignment work. The following is a large (and pretty good!) selection of these texts (as well as some pertinent articles) but, obviously, it is by no means exhaustive. Please return library loans promptly to ensure that your class mates also get the chance to use the same books.

(Sections below have been created as a guideline only; I suggest taking a good look through all these references when you are performing background research for your essays)

General Texts

Armstrong D (1983) Political Anatomy of the Body: Medical Knowledge in Britain in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Banton R, Clifford P, Frosh S, Lousada J and Rosenthall J (1985) The Politics of Mental Health. Basingstoke: Macmillan.

Brown P (ed.) (2008) Perspectives in Medical Sociology, 4th edition. Long Grove: Waveland Press.

Busfield J (2001) Rethinking the Sociology of Mental Health. Oxford: Blackwell.

Busfield J (2011) Mental Illness. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Cockerham W C (2011) Sociology of Mental Disorder. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Cohen, B. M. Z. (Ed.) (2018) Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health. Abingdon: Routledge.

De Maio F (2010) Health and Social Theory. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Gabe J (1996) Medicine, Health and Risk: Sociological Approaches. Oxford: Blackwell.

Illich I (2000) Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health. London: Marion Boyars.

Illich I (1977) Disabling professions. London: Marion Boyars.

Luhrmann, T. M. (2000) Of Two Minds: An Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry. New York: Vintage Books.

Navarro, V. (1986) Crisis, Health, and Medicine: A Social Critique. New York: Tavistock Publications.

Nettleton S (2006) The Sociology of Health and Illness, 2nd edition. Cambridge: Polity.

Pilgrim D (2005) Key concepts in mental health, 2nd edition. London: SAGE.

Reynolds J (ed.) (2009) Mental Health Still Matters. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Rogers A and Pilgrim D (2005) A sociology of mental health and illness, 3rd edition. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Scheid T L and Brown T N (2009) A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health: Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems, 2nd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Scull A T (ed.) (2014) Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness: An A-to-Z Guide.  Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Tausig M, Michello J and Subedi S (2004) The sociology of mental illness. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall.

Waitzkin, H. (2000) The Second Sickness: Contradictions of Capitalist Health Care (rev. ed.). Lanham: Rowan & Littlefield Publishers.

Weitz R (2010) The sociology of health, illness, and health care: A critical approach, 5th edn. Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.

Williams S J (2003) Medicine and the body. London: Sage.

Histories of Madness/Psychiatry

Bynum W F, Porter R and  Shepherd M (eds.) (1985) The Anatomy of Madness: Essays in the History of Psychiatry (Volume 2 – Institutions and Society). London: Tavistock.

Foucault M (1967) Madness and Civilisation: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. London: Routledge.

Foucault M (1975) Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage Books.

Foucault M (1994) The birth of the clinic: An archaeology of medical perception. New York: Vintage.

Keller R C (2007) Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [electronic resource]

Lieberman, J. A. (2015) Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry. New York: Little, Brown and Company.

Mahone S and Vaughan M (eds) (2007) Psychiatry and Empire. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Millon T, Grossman S and Maeagher S (2004) Masters of the Mind: Exploring the story of mental illness from ancient times to the new millennium. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Porter R (1996) A social history of madness: stories of the insane. London: Phoenix Giant.

Scull A (1981) Madhouses, Mad-Doctors and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era. London: The Athlone Press.

Scull A (1989) Social order/mental disorder: Anglo-American psychiatry in historical perspective. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Scull, A. (1993) The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700–1900. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Scull, A. (2015) Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Shorter E (1997) A History of Psychiatry: From the era of the Asylum to the age of Prozac. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Shorter E (2005) A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Szasz, T. S. (1988) Schizophrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.

Szasz, T. S. (1997) The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (rev. ed.). Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.

Torrey E F and Miller J (2007) The Invisible Plague: The rise of mental illness from 1750 to the present. Piscataway: Rutgers University Press.

Whitaker, R. (2010b) Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill (rev. ed.) New York: Basic Books.

DSM/Alternative Diagnoses

American Psychiatric Association (1952) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual: Mental Disorders. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.

American Psychiatric Association (1968) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 2nd edn. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.

American Psychiatric Association (1980) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd edn. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.

American Psychiatric Association (1987) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd edn., rev. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.

American Psychiatric Association (1994) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edn. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.

American Psychiatric Association (2000) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edn, rev. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.

American Psychiatric Association (2013) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edn. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Association.

Baker D L (2006) ‘Neurodiversity, neurological disability and the public sector: notes on the autism spectrum’, Disability and Society, 21(1): 15-29.

Bentall R P (1992) ‘A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder’, Journal of Medical Ethics, 18: 94-98.

Cosgrove L, Krimsky S, Vijayaraghavan M and Schneider L (2006) ‘Financial ties between DSM-IV panel and the pharmaceutical industry’, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 75: 154-160.

Caplan, P. J. (1995) They Say You’re Crazy: How the World’s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’s Normal. Cambridge, MA: De Capo Press.

Caplan, P. J. and Cosgrove, L. (Eds) (2004) Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis. Oxford: Jason Aronson.

Decker, H. S. (2013) The Making of DSM-III: A Diagnostic Manual’s Conquest of American Psychiatry. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

DeGrandpre R J (1999) Ritalin Nation: A rapid-fire culture and the transformation of human consciousness. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

Eyal G, Hart B, Onculer E, Oren N and Rossi N (2010) The Autism Matrix: The Social Origins of the Autism Epidemic. Cambridge: Polity.

Greenberg, G. (2013) The Book of Woe: The DSM and The Unmaking of Psychiatry. New York: Blue Rider Press.

Hallowell E M and Ratey J J (1994) Driven to Distraction. NY: Pantheon.

Hepworth J (1999) The Social Construction of Anorexia Nervosa. London: Sage.

Jutel A G (2011) Putting a name to it: Diagnosis in contemporary society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. [electronic resource]

Kutchins H and Kirk S A (1992) The Selling of DSM: The rhetoric of science in psychiatry. New Brunswick: Aldine Transaction.

Kutchins H and Kirk S A (1997) Making us crazy: DSM - the psychiatric bible and the creation of mental disorders. New York: Free Press.

Lane C (2007) Shyness: How normal behavior became a sickness. New Haven: Yale University Press. [electronic resource]

Metzl J M and Kirkland A (eds) (2010) Against Health: How health became the new morality. New York: New York University Press. [electronic resource]

Pilgrim D (2001) ‘The survival of psychiatric diagnosis’, Social Science & Medicine, 65(3): 536-547.

Saul, R. (2014) ADHD Does Not Exist: The Truth about Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder. New York: HarperCollins.

Scuitto M J and Eisenberg M (2007) ‘Evaluating the evidence for and against the overdiagnosis of ADHD’, Journal of Attention Disorders, 11: 106-113.

Timimi S (2005). Naughty Boys: Anti-social behaviour, ADHD and the role of culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Timimi S, Gardner N and McGabe B (2011) The Myth of Autism: Medicalising Men’s and Boy’s Social and Emotional Competence. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Timimi S and Leo J (eds) (2009) Rethinking ADHD: From brain to culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Institutionalisation, Decarceration, and Community Care

Barham P and Hayward R (1991) Relocating Madness: From the Mental Patient to the Person. London: Tavistock/Routledge.

Bean P and Mounser P (1993) Discharged From Mental Hospitals. London: Macmillan.

Borthwick A, Holman C, Kennard D, McFetridge M, Messruther K and Wilkes J (2001) ‘The relevance of moral treatment to contemporary mental health care’, Journal of Mental Health, 10(4): 427-439.

Cohen D (1988) Forgotten Millions: The Treatment of the Mentally Ill - A Global Perspective. London: Collins.

Coleman R (1998) The Politics of the Madhouse. Runcorn: Handsell.

Fakhoury W and Priebe S (2002) ‘The process of deinstitutionalization: An international overview’, Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 15(2): 187-192.

Gawith L and Abrains (2006) ‘Long journey to recovery for Kiwi consumers: Recent developments in mental health policy and practice in New Zealand’, Australasian Psychiatry, 41(2): 140-148.

Goffman E (1961) Asylums. London: Penguin.

Mechanic D (2007) Mental Health and Social Policy: Beyond Managed Care, 5th edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Allyn and Bacon.

Ramon S (ed.) (1992) Psychiatric Hospital Closure: Myths and Realities. London: Chapman and Hall.

Schissel, B (1997) ‘Psychiatric expansionism and social control: The intersection of community care and state policy’, Social Science Research 26(4): 399-418.

Scull A T (1984) Decarceration: Community Treatment and the Deviant - A Radical View, 2nd edition. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Sjöström S (2006) ‘Invocation of coercion context in compliance communication - power dynamics in psychiatric care’, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 29(1): 36-47.

Sociologically-Orientated Theory

Abbott A D (1988) The System of Professions: An essay on the division of expert labor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Barry A, Osborne T and Rose N (1993) ‘Liberalism, neo-liberalism and governmentality: introduction’, Economy and Society, 22(3):265-266.

Burstow, B. (2015) Psychiatry and the Business of Madness: An Ethical and Epistemological Accounting. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Cohen B M Z (2016) Psychiatric hegemony: A Marxist theory of mental illness. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Durkheim E (1952) Suicide: A Study in Sociology. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.*

Faris R E and Dunham H W (1939) Mental Disorder in Urban Areas: An Ecological Study of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Freidson E (1970) Profession of Medicine: A study of the sociology of applied knowledge. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Giddens A (ed.) (1971) Sociology of Suicide. London: Frank Cass and Co.

Goffman E (1963) Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. London: Penguin.

Greene T W (2009) ‘An integrated stress process theory: Viewing intersections of crime and mental illness’, Theory in Action, 2(1): 122-139.

Horowitz A V (2003) Creating Mental Illness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Jones C and Porter R (eds.) (1998) Reassessing Foucault: Power, Medicine and the Body. London: Routledge.

Lemke T (2001) ‘The birth of bio-politics: Michel Foucault’s lectures at the college de France on neo-liberal governmentality’, Economy and Society, 30(2): 190-207.

Leong G B (1989) ‘The expansion of psychiatric participation in social control’, Community Psychiatry, 40: 240-242.

Marx K, Plaut E A and Anderson K. (eds.) (1999) Marx on suicide. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.

Miller P and Rose N (eds.) (1986) The Power of Psychiatry. Cambridge: Polity.

Parker, I. (2007) Revolution in Psychology: Alienation to Emancipation. London: Pluto Press. Parson T (1951) The Social System. New York: The Free Press

Parsons T (1975) ‘The sick role and the role of the physician reconsidered’, The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly: Health and Society, 53(3), 257-278.

Petersen A R and Bunton R (eds.) (1997) Foucault, health and medicine. New York: Routledge.

Roberts, R. (2015) Psychology and Capitalism: The Manipulation of Mind. Alresford: Zero Books. (order)

Scheff, T. J. (1966) Being Mentally lll: A Sociological Theory. Chicago: Aldine.

Scheff T J (ed.) (1975) Labelling Madness. Engelwood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.

Szasz, T. S. (1974) The Myth of Mental lllness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct (rev. ed.). New York: Harper & Row.

Szasz T S (1982) ‘On the legitimacy of psychiatric power’, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 3(3): 315-324.

Tremain S (ed.) Foucault and the Government of Disability. Michigan: The University of Michigan Press.

Turner B S (1995) Medical Power and Social Knowledge, 2nd edition. London: Sage.

Wright P and Treacher A (eds.) (1982) The Problem of Medical Knowledge: Examining the social construction of medicine. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Critical Psychiatry

Bentall, R. P. (2009) Doctoring The Mind: Why Psychiatric Treatments Fail. London: Penguin.

Bracken P and Thomas P (2006) Postpsychiatry: Mental Health in a Postmodern World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Burstow, B., LeFrançois, B. A. and Diamond, S. (Eds) (2014) Psychiatry Disrupted: Theorizing Resistance and Crafting the (R)evolution. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.   

Cohen, C. I. and Timimi, S. (Eds) (2008) Liberatory Psychiatry: Philosophy, Politics, and Mental Health. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Cooper D G (1967) Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry. London: Tavistock.

Davies, J. (2013) Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm than Good. London: Icon Books.

Double D B (2006) Critical Psychiatry: The limits of madness. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Ingleby D (ed.) (1980) Critical Psychiatry: The Politics of Mental Health. New York: Free Association Books.

Johnstone L (2000) Users and Abusers of Psychiatry: a critical look at psychiatric practice, 2nd edition. London: Routledge.

Kleinman A and Good B J (eds.) (1985) Culture and Depression. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Laing R D (1999) The divided self: An existential study in sanity and madness. London: Routledge.

McLaren N (1998) ‘A critical review of the biopsychosocial model’, Australasian Psychiatry, 32(1): 86-92.

Paris, J. (2008) Prescriptions for the Mind: A Critical View of Contemporary Psychiatry. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ross C and Pam A (eds.) (1995) Pseudoscience in Biological Psychiatry: Blaming the brain. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Sedgwick P (1982) Psycho Politics. London: Pluto Press.

Szasz T S (1970) Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Zola I K (1972) ‘Medicine as an institution of social control’, Sociological Review, 20: 487-504.

Medicalisation and Psychopharmacology

Abraham J (1995) Science, politics and the pharmaceutical industry: Controversy and bias in drug regulation. London: UCL Press.

Angell M (2000) ‘Is academic medicine for sale?’ New England Journal of Medicine, 342(20): 1516-1518.

Breggin P (1993) Toxic Psychiatry. London: Fontana.

Cohen C I (1993) ‘The biomedicalization of psychiatry: A critical overview’, Community Mental Health Journal, 29(6): 509-521.

Conrad P (2005) ‘The shifting engines of medicalization’, Journal of Health and Social Behaviour, 6(1): 3-14.

Conrad P (2006) Identifying Hyperactive Children: The Medicalization of Deviant Behavior (rev. ed.). Aldershot: Ashgate.

Conrad P (2007) ‘Medicalization and social control’, Annual Review of Sociology, 18(1): 209-232.

Conrad P (2007) The medicalization of society: On the transformation of human conditions into treatable disorders. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.

Conrad P and Leiter V (2004) ‘Medicalization, markets and consumers’, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 45: 158-176.

Conrad P and Schneider J (1992) Deviance and medicalization: From badness to sickness. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. [electronic resource]

Dumit J (2012) Drugs for Life: How pharmaceutical companies define our health. Durham: Duke University Press.

Elliot C (1994) ‘Listening to Prozac: A psychiatrist explores antidepressant drugs and the remaking of the self’, British Medical Journal, 308(6945): 1724-1725.

Frances, A. (2013) Saving Normal: An Insider’s Revolt against Out-Of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life. New York: Harper Collins.

Greenberg G (2010) Manufacturing Depression: The secret history of a modern disease. London: Bloomsbury.

Healy D (1997) The Antidepressant Era. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Healy D (2004) Let them eat Prozac: The unhealthy relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and depression. New York: New York University Press.

Horwitz, A. V. and Wakefield, J. C. (2007) The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder. New York: Oxford University Press.

Kirk, S. A., Gomory, T. and Cohen, D. (2013) Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.

Kirsch, I. (2009) The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth. New York: Basic Books.

Kramer, P. D. (1994) Listening to Prozac. London: Fourth Estate.

Law J (2006) Big Pharma: How the world’s biggest drug companies control illness. London: Constable and Robinson.

Malacrida C (2004) ‘Medicalization, ambivalence and social control:

Mothers' descriptions of educators and ADD/ADHD’, Health, 8(61): 61-77.

Miller T (2008) ‘Panic between the Lips: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Ritalin®’ in Krinsky C (ed.) Moral Panics over contemporary children and youth. Farnham: Ashgate.

Moncrieff J (2009) The myth of the Chemical cure: A Critique of Psychiatric Drug Treatment, revised edn. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Moynihan R and Cassels A (2005) Selling Sickness: How Drug Companies are turning us all into Patients. Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin.

Rafalovich A (2004) Framing ADHD Children: A Critical Examination of the History, Discourse, and Everyday Experience of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Lanham: Lexington Books.

Rapley, M., Moncrieff, M. and Dillon, J. (Eds) De-Medicalizing Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition (pp. 66–85). Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Watters E (2011) Crazy like us: The globalization of the American psyche. London:  Constable & Robinson.

Welch H G, Schwartz L M and Woloshin S (2011) Overdiagnosed: Making people sick in the pursuit of health. Boston: Beacon Press.

Whitaker, R. (2010) Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America. New York: Crown Publishers.

Whitaker, R. and Cosgrove, L. (2015) Psychiatry under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Wilkes M S, Bell R A and Kravitz R L (2000) ‘Direct to consumer prescription drug advertising: Trends, impacts and implications’, Health Affairs, 19(2): 110-128.

Wurtzel E (1994) Prozac Nation: Young and depressed in America. New York: Riverhead.

Social Class, Gender, and Ethnic minorities

Becker, D. (1997) Through the Looking Class: Women and Borderline Personality Disorder. Boulder: Westview Press.

Breggin, P. R. and Breggin, G. R. (1998) The War Against Children of Color: Psychiatry Targets Inner City Youth. Monroe: Common Courage Press.

Chesler, Phyllis (2005). Woman and madness (revised edition). New York: Palgrave MacMillan.

Ehrenreich B and English D (2005) For her own good: two centuries of the experts' advice to women, 2nd edn. New York: Anchor Books. (also available as an e-resource)

Ehrenreich, B. and English, D. (2011) Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness (2nd ed.). New York: The Feminist Press.

Fanon, F. (1965) The Wretched of the Earth. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Fernando S (ed.) (1995) Mental Health in a Multi-Ethnic Society. London: Routledge.

Fernando S (2010) Mental health, race and culture, 3rd edn. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Lifton R J (1986) The Nazi doctors: Medical killing and the psychology of genocide. London: Macmillan.

Mahone, S. and Vaughan, M. (Eds) (2007) Psychiatry and Empire. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Maines, R. (1999) The Technology of Orgasm: ‘Hysteria,’ The Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Masson J (1986) A dark science: Women, sexuality, and psychiatry in the nineteenth century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Metzl J M (2009) The Protest Psychosis: How schizophrenia became a black disease. Boston: Beacon Press. [electronic resource]

Mills, C. (2014) Decolonizing Global Mental Health: The Psychiatrization of the Majority World. Hove: Routledge. 

Muller-Hill B (1998) Murderous Science: Elimination by scientific selection of Jews, gypsies, and others in Germany, 1933-1945. Plainview, New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.

Penfold, P. S. and Walker, G. A. (1983) Women and the Psychiatric Paradox. Montreal: Eden Press.

Rogers A and Pilgrim D (2003) Mental Health and Inequality. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Riska E (2003) ‘Gendering the medicalization thesis’, Advances in Gender Research, 7: 61-89.

Russell, D. (1995) Women, Madness and Medicine. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Schreiber R and Hartrick G (2002) ‚Keeping it together: How women use the biomedical explanatory model to manage the stigma of depression’, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 23(2): 91-105.

Scull A T (2009) Hysteria: The disturbing history. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [electronic resource]

Showalter E (1985) The female malady: Women, madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. New York: Pantheon.

Ussher J M (1991) Women’s Madness: Misogyny or mental illness? New York : Harvester Wheatsheaf.

Veith, I. (1970) Hysteria: The History of a Disease. Chicago: The University of Chicago.

Willie C V, Rieker P P, Kramer B M and Brown B S (eds.) (1995) Mental Health, Racism and Sexism. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Talking Cures

Bynum W F (1974) ‘Rationales for therapy in British Psychiatry: 1780-1835’, Medical History, 18(4): 317-334.

Campbell, J and Harbord, J (1998). Psycho-politics and cultural desires. London: UCL Press.

Craib I (2001) Psychoanalysis: a critical introduction. Malden MA: Polity Press:

Davies, W. (2015) The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being. London: Verso.

Ehrenreich B (2009) Smile or die: How positive thinking fooled America and the world. London: Granta Books

Furedi F (2003) Therapy culture: Cultivating vulnerability in an uncertain age. London: Routledge.

Gardner P (2002) ‘The perpetually sick self: The cultural promotion and self-management of mood illness’, A Journal of Media and Culture, 5(5).

Grodin, D. (1991). ‘The interpreting audience: The therapeutics of self-help book reading’, Critical Studies in Media Communication, 8(4), pp.404-420.

Hazleden, R. (2003). ‘Love Yourself: The Relationship of the Self with Itself in Popular Self-Help Texts’, Journal of Sociology, 39(4), pp.413-428.

Holmes, Jeremy (2002) ‘All you need is cognitive behaviour therapy?’, British Medical Journal 324: 288-294.

Lees, J 2010 Identity wars, the counselling and psychotherapy profession and Practitioner-based research. Psychotherapy and Politics International 8 (1):3-12

Lichterman, P. (1992). Self-help reading as a thin culture. Media, Culture and Society, 14(3), pp.421-447.

Masson J M (1989) Against Therapy. London: Fontana.

Masson J M (1990) Final analysis: The making and unmaking of a psychoanalyst. New York: Ballantine.

Masson, J. M. (1992) The Assault on Truth: Freud’s Suppression of the Seduction Theory. New York: HarperPerennial.

McGee, V. (2005). Self-Help, Inc. Makeover Culture in American Life. New York: Oxford University Press.

McNamee S and Gergen K J (eds.) Therapy as Social Construction. London: Sage.

Morrall P (2008) The trouble with therapy: sociology and psychotherapy. Maidenhead: McGraw Hill/Open University Press.

Miller, P. and Rose, N. (1994). On therapeutic authority: psychoanalytical expertise under advanced liberalism. History of the Human Sciences, 7(3), pp.29-64.

Moskowitz, E.S. (2001). In Therapy We Trust: America’s Obsession with Self Fulfillment. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Philip, B. (2009). Analysing the politics of self-help books on depression. Journal of Sociology, 45(2), pp.151-168.

Rimke, H.M. (2000). Governing Citizens through Self-help Literature. Cultural Studies 14(1), pp.61–78.

Rose N (1996) Inventing our Selves: Psychology, power, and personhood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Rose N (1999) Governing the Soul: The Shaping of the Private Self, 2nd edition. London: Free Association Books.

Throop, E.A. (2009). Psychotherapy, American Culture, and Social Policy: Immoral Individualism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 

Totton, Nick (Ed) (2006) The politics of psychotherapy: New perspectives. England: Open University Press.

Ward, S. (1996). Filling the World with Self-Esteem: A Social History of Truth-Making. The Canadian Journal of Sociology, 21(1), pp.1-23.

Illness Experience and User Accounts

Charon R (2006) Narrative Medicine: Honoring the stories of illness. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Cohen B M Z (2015) Mental Health User Narratives: New perspectives on illness and recovery, rev. edn. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Gonzalez L and Davies F (eds) (2013) Madness, Women and the Power of Art. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press.

Estroff S E (1981) Making It Crazy: Ethnography of Psychiatric Clients in an American Community. London: University of California Press.

Kleinman A (1988) The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing and the Human Condition. New York: Basic Books.

Read J and Reynolds J (eds.) (1996) Speaking Our Minds: An Anthology of Personal Experiences of Mental Distress and its Consequences. London: Macmillan.

Rogers, A and Pilgrim, D 1991 Pulling down churches: accounting for the British mental health users movement. Sociology of Health & Illness. 13, 129-148.

Media, Crime, and Stigma

Allen R and Nairn R (1997) ‘Media depictions of mental illness: An analysis of the use of dangerousness’, Australia and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 31: 375-381.

Alonso J, Buron A, Rojas-Ferreras S, de Graaf R, Garo J, de Girolamo G, Bruffaerts R, and Kovess V (2009) ‘Perceived stigma among individuals with common mental disorders’, Journal of Affective Disorders, 118: 180-186.

Anderson M (2003) ‘One flew over the psychiatric unit: Mental illness and the media’, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 10: 297-306.

Corrigan P W (ed.) (2005) On the Stigma of Mental Illness: Practical strategies for research and social change. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

Corrigan P and Watson A (2004) ‘At Issue: Stop the stigma – call mental illness a brain disease’, Schizophrenia Bulletin, 30(3): 477-479.

Fennell P (2001) Treatment without Consent: Law, psychiatry and the treatment of mentally disordered people since 1845. London: Routledge.

Kupers, Terry. 1999. Prison madness: The mental health crisis behind bars and what we must do about it. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Link B G (1987) ‘Understanding labeling effects in the area of mental disorders: An assessment of the effects of expectations of rejection’, American Sociological Review, 52: 92-112.

Link B and Cullen B (1986) ‘Contact with the mentally ill and perceptions of how dangerous they are’, Journal of Health and Social Behaviour, 27(4): 289-302.

Link B, Yang L, Phelan J and Collins P (2004) ‘Measuring mental illness stigma’, Schizophrenia Bulletin, 30(3): 511-541.

Manning, Nick and Ian Shaw. 1999. Mental health and social order. Policy and Politics 27(1): 5-11.

Peterson D, Pere L, Sheehan N and Surgenor G (2007) ‘Experience of mental health discrimination in New Zealand’, Health & Social Care in the Community, 15(1): 18-25. 

Read J and Harre N (2001) ‘The role of biological and genetic causal beliefs in the stigmatisation of ‘mental patients’’, Journal of Mental Health, 10(2): 223-245.

Silver, Eric., Richard B. Felson and Matthew Vaneseltine. 2008. The relationship between mental health problems and violence among criminal offenders. Criminal Justice and Behaviour 35(4): 405-426.

Wahl O F (1992) ‘Mass media images of mental illness: A review of the literature’, Journal of Community Psychology, 20(4): 343-352.

Sociology podcast

I can highly recommend the weekly BBC Radio 4 podcast ‘Thinking Allowed’ hosted by reformed criminologist Laurie Taylor. His discussions often cover issues of crime, deviancy, mental health and other topics relevant to this course, and features commentaries from sociologists and related social scientists. You can also access about five years of back issues of the programme. Well worth a look:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ta

Library resources

Please use the library and familiarise yourself with all the wonderful resources we have on our doorstep.

Any Libraries & Learning Services student enquiries should be made through the ‘Ask us’ form, https://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/contact-us/

Sociology and Criminology journal search pages:

https://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/guides/arts/sociology-and-criminology

Getting help

Help with Sociology essays:

http://members.tripod.com/~lklivingston/essay/

Student Learning Services: 

https://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/services/student-learning

Turnitin

This course uses the Turnitin electronic plagiarism detection service. Plagiarism continues to be a significant issue at universities worldwide. This service helps to safeguard the value of your degree. You must cite all sources correctly and in full. Keep direct quotations relevant and to a minimum. Please do not use any previous essay writing handed in for other courses (this also counts as serious academic misconduct at the University of Auckland).

Referen©ite

Acknowledgement of sources is an important aspect of academic writing. The University’s Referen©ite website www.cite.auckland.ac.nz provides students with a one-stop online resource for academic referencing needs. Referen©ite explains the essentials of referencing and how to avoid plagiarism. It also includes practical tools to help students reference correctly, use references effectively in writing, and gives fast access to some major reference formats with examples. 

If you need further help, information, or advice please also consider…

 The Student Learning Service

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