Background: Borderline Personality Disorder is subject to considerable debate with regards
to its validity as a way of understanding people and their difficulties. This debate has taken …

This paper presents data from a systematic review and meta-analysis of 29 published
studies of therapeutic community effectiveness using controls, including 8 randomised …

Sarah Nettleton's The Sociology of Health and Illness has become a cornerstone text,
popular with students and academics alike for its rigorous and accessible overview of the …

Is depression simply the result of chemical imbalances, or Schizophrenia a wholly biological
disorder? What role do the broader circumstances of an individual's social, cultural and …

This path-breaking text constructs a new way of thinking about social work based on
contemporary social theory. Working in a counter-tradition that is suspicious of a number of …

Abstract In 1980 the American Psychiatric Association (APA), faced with increased
professional competition, revised the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders …

A diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) often signals the quintessential
“difficult patient” status to clinicians, with at least one scholar arguing the condition itself was …

OBJECTIVE: To use system ideas and the concept of 'wicked problems' to frame
examination of a decade-and-a-half of UK mental health policy. METHODS: Theoretically …

This paper explores gender and mental health with particular reference to the emerging
philosophical field of critical realism. This philosophy suggests a shared ontology and …

The diagnosis of depression in the clinical context is extremely controversial and is subject
to criticism of over‐medicalisation and pharmaceuticalisation. Depression can be …