Responding to Men in Crisis

by Brian Taylor

Overview

Responding to Men in Crisis is based on new research looking at gendered assumptions about rationality and men's mental health. It looks at postmodern theory in relation to masculinities and madness, and discusses key contemporary debates in political uses of risk, dangerousness and so on. The author relates this to a discussion of current policy and practice responses to men within the mental health system. It offers the reader a theoretical exploration of a topically and politically sensitive issues and is relevant to service user involvement and survivor movements, making it essential reading for academics and students of sociology and allied disciplines.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415654067
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/12/2012
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Brian Taylor worked as a community development worker between 1984 and 1993, mostly for one of the first user/survivor led MIND groups in England. He draws on a range of personal experience including involvements in informal crisis support, self-help therapy, and anti-sexist men's groups, and has recenetly completed a PhD in Applied Social Sciences at the University of Bradford.

Table of Contents

Preface, Acknowledgements, PART I. Introduction, 1. Approaching the politics of complexity, 2. Why postmodernism? Conceptualising the politics of complexity, PART II. Four biographical sketches, 3. Genealogy and biography: how we become who we are, 4. Behold in me the tyrant of Turin! Nietzsche, madness and postmodernism, 5. The scream of life itself? Language and power in the life of Antonin Artaud, 6. Deconstructing sovereignty: the post-revolutionary toolbox of Michel Foucault, 7. Like a marble guest: the nervous illness of Daniel Paul Schreber, PART III. Some contemporary debates, 8. Politics and experience: engaging with complex subjectivity, 9. Masculinities and risk: negotiating the politics of complexity, 10. Reconstructing men’s lives: power/knowledge, personal recovery and social transformation, Notes, Bibliography, Index