1. Transforming the mental health field: the early history of the National Association for Mental Health.
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Crossley, Nick
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MENTAL health ,SOCIAL movements ,PSYCHIATRY ,PRESSURE groups ,FUNCTIONAL representation ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
The paper begins by noting the absence of any sustained analysis of post-war mental health pressure groups and movements. This is deemed problematic because such movements and groups have had a strong presence during this period and because movements, as such, are afforded a central role in much contemporary sociology on account of their role in the process of social change. Next the paper considers how such analysis should be conducted, and suggests a three-phase model for periodising the activity of the groups and movements of the post-war era. The largest part of the paper is then devoted to an examination of one particular aspect of the first phase: the birth of the National Association For Mental Health and their activities in their first ten years of life. Much can be learned from the study of this group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1998
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