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Mental
Health, Learning Difficulties - Booklist
ALIVE
AND KICKING
Stephen
Pattison
SCM/1989.
ISBN 0-334-01871-4.
A review
of religious healing, and an argument for an holistic approach to
health. See especially Chapter 5 on mental illness.
ALTSCHULS
PSYCHIATRIC AND MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
Margaret
McGovan and Sarah Whitcher
Bailliere
Tindall/1994.
A
basic book for nurses on mental health but worth looking at for
chaplains and people coming into mental health who wish to find
out more about the "nuts and bolts" of mental illness and treatment.
About mental health, mental illness, forms of treatment, hospital
community, differences of mental health settings etc.
AN
UNQUIET MIND
Kay
Jamison
Picador/May
97. ISBN 0-330-34651-2.
A
personal account by a mental health professional who suffers from
a bipolar disorder. Contains both a personal and professional perspective
of mental illness, which is the strength of the book. It is both
readable and informative.
A
SOCIAL HISTORY OF MADNESS: STORIES OF THE INSANE
Roy
Porter
Phoenix/Jan
96. ISBN 1-85799-502-3.
Excellent
historical perspectives including people's own accounts of madness
as well as society's responses
BLESSINGS
Mary
Craig
Hodder/Jul
79. ISBN 0-340-69079-8.
This
book highlights the sufferings and problems of mothers who have
children with learning difficulties.
BRAINSQUALL:
SOUNDINGS FROM A DEEP DEPRESSION
Jim
Cotter
Arthur
James/Nov 97. ISBN 0-85305-422-3.
This
is a personal account of depression by an Anglican priest, which
is both moving and disturbing. The author gives a clear account
of depression and the stigma from which he suffered, by the church
and others. "To be stigmatised is to be appraised by others not
on character and behaviour, but simply on one’s membership of a
defined category, suspected rather than accepted." He vividly relates
the slow progress back to "health" and how it affected his faith.
Very readable.
CLINICAL
THEOLOGY
Frank
Lake
Darton
Longman & Todd/Jul 86. ISBN 0-232-51676-6.
A
Christian psychiatrist's attempt to relate mental health problems
to classic Christian theology and doctrine.
COPING
WITH SUICIDE: A PASTORAL AID
Gerard
Green
Columba/1992.
ISBN 1-85607-046-8.
ETHICAL
ISSUES IN MENTAL HEALTH
Philip
Barker
May
97. ISBN 0-7487-3363-9.
GOING
SOMEWHERE: PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HANDICAPS AND THEIR PASTORAL CARE
Sheila
Hollins and Margaret Grimer
SPCK/Jun
88. ISBN 0-281-04336-1.
I
AM NOT AN ILLNESS: MENTAL HEALTH AND COMMUNITY CARE
Newcastle
Board for Mission and Social Responsibility/1996.
A
resource pack for churches on mental health and community care.
Details from Brian Allen, Chaplaincy Centre, St Nicholas' Hospital,
Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne NE3 3XT. or Available from Newcastle
Diocesan Office, Church House, Grainger Park Road, Newcastle upon
Tyne, NE4 8SX.
IN
THE EYE OF THE STORM
Michael
Law
Fulbourn
Hospital, Fulbourn, Cambridge CB1 5EF.
This
book contains a collection of papers written and published in professional
magazines over a 10-year period. They reflect the life and work
of a Chaplain working in Mental Health and his personal and theological
encounters with the people who have suffered from mental and emotional
problems. The title suggests the idea that a Chaplain is at the
centre of many stressful and traumatic situations and can provide
an "asylum", both within an institutional setting, and outside in
the community. There are only limited supplies of this book available.
KEEPING
FAITH: THE PROVISION OF COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES WITHIN
A MULTI-FAITH CONTEXT
Nigel
Copsey/1997
ISBN
1-870480-33-3 Available from The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health,
134-138 Borough High Street, London SE1 1LB.
This
revealing report looks at how the strong religious beliefs of the
different ethnic communities in the multi-cultural borough of Newham
are often not taken into account by community mental health services.
It highlights how, the taboo mental health staff have around the
discussion of spiritual beliefs, alienates many Asian, African and
Afro-Caribbean people.
KNOWING
OUR OWN MINDS: A SURVEY OF HOW PEOPLE IN EMOTIONAL DISTRESS TAKE
CONTROL OF THEIR LIVES
Alison
Faulkner
Mental
Health Foundation/Mar 97 ISBN 0-901944-39-4.
LECTURE
NOTES ON PSYCHIATRY
James
Willis
Blackwell
Scientific Publications/Jun 98. ISBN 0-632-03677-X.
Despite
the rather off-putting title, an excellent layman's dictionary of
medical terms. The book explains medical jargon in the simplest
of language, which may enable the Chaplain to empathise with patients
and avoid giving false hopes and hence losing credibility.
LIVING
ILLUSIONS
M.
Jacobs
SPCK/1993.
An excellent
exploration of relationships between faith, illusion and reality.
LYTTLE'S
MENTAL HEALTH & DISORDER
Jack
Lyttle etc
Bailliere/Sep
00. ISBN 0-7020-2449-X.
A
good source book.
MEANING
IN MADNESS
John
Foskett
SPCK/84.
ISBN 0-281041288
MENTAL
HEALTH AND RELIGION
Kate
Loewenthal
Chapman
Hall/Sep 94. ISBN 0-412-55140-3.
Useful
overview with case material.
MENTAL
HEALTH MATTERS
Ed.
Stephen Pattison
OUP/1996.
ISBN 0-333678478.
This
is a course reader for the Open University and offers a variety of
perspectives relating to Mental Health. It has been written by people
coming from different professional backgrounds.
MODERN
MAN IN SEARCH OF A SOUL
C.
Jung
Routledge/May
01. ISBN 0-415-25390-X.
The psychoanalyst's
view of the importance of faith and religion from mid-life onwards.
MUSIC
FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
Miriam
Wood
Souvenir
Press/Aug 93. ISBN 0-285-63155-1.
A help
to those working with people with learning difficulties in relation
to worship.
ONE
FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
Ken
Kesey
Pan/May
73. ISBN 0-330-23564-8.
PSYCHIATRY
IN DISSENT
Anthony
W Clare
Routledge/Oct
98. ISBN 0-415-03942-8.
Introduction
and models of mental illness. Controversial issues in thought and
practice. A standard work.
PSYCHIATRY
AND RELIGION: CONTEXT, CONSENSUS AND CONTROVERSIES
Ed
Dinesh Bhugra
Routledge/Apr
97. ISBN 0-415-16512-1.
This
book is approached from a multi faith perspective and written by people
from different professional backgrounds. It is essential reading for
those who are concerned with the interface between psychiatry and
religion.
PSYCHOSIS
AND SPIRITUALITY: EXPLORING THE NEW FRONTIER
Ed
Isabel Clarke
Whurr
Publrs/Oct 00. ISBN 1-86156-202-0
RESURRECTING
THE PERSON: FRIENDSHIP AND CARE OF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS
John
Swinton
Abingdon
P/Mar 01. ISBN 0-687-08228-5.
SEEING
BEYOND DEPRESSION
Jean
Vanier
SPCK/01.
ISBN 0-281054118.
Depression
is an illness that we cannot treat by ourselves says Jean Vanier.
He describes it as common to the broken human condition, but so frightening
that we hardly dare name it. However if well handled it can lead to
a new inner freedom. Talking to someone we trust is the key, he says:
putting words to the pain is the start of liberation. His booklet
of reassurance and comfort includes the thought "Today you are living
in winter; trust that spring will come."
SPIRITUALITY
AND MENTAL HEALTH CARE: REDISCOVERING A FORGOTTEN DIMENSION
John
Swinton
Abingdon
P/Feb 01. ISBN 1-85302-804-5.
STRANGERS
IN THE PEWS: THE PASTORAL CARE OF PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS WITHIN THE
CHRISTIAN CONGREGATION
Roger
Grainger
Epworth/Nov
93. ISBN 0-7162-0494-0.
A
very practical book.
THE
ANNE FRENCH MEMORIAL LECTURES
Ed:
Arthur Hawes and William Hughes/1996
ISBN
0-9525704-4-0.
Available
from Dr William Hughes, Norfolk Mental Health Care NHS Trust, Drayton
Old Lodge, 146 Drayton High Road, Drayton, Norwich NR8 6AN.
THE
DIVIDED SELF
R.
D. Laing
Penguin/Nov
90. ISBN 0-14-013537-5.
UNDERSTANDING
DEPRESSION
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