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Mental Health Uncertainty and Inevitability: Rejuvenating the Relationship between Social Science an

Returning to the Fray: Revisiting What Social Science Can Offer Psychiatry ... and Vice Versa Barriers to Collaboration Stigma Psychoanalysis Acrimonious Divorce or Illicit Affair?Critical Psychiatry Current Status of Medical Psychiatry References A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to Mental Health Assertive Outreach Background and Introduction Symbolic Interaction Service Setting and Conduct of the Study An Illustrative Case-Specific Object: High An Illustrative Institutional Object: Social Outings Interactions Between Institutional and Case- Specific Symbolic Objects Implications for Understanding Mental Health Service Practices Organisational Pressures Labels How Might Symbolic Interaction Contribute to a Better Understanding of Psychiatry What Can the Study of Mental Health Services Offer SI?References The Role of Everyday Interaction Rituals Within Therapeutic Communities Life in Therapeutic Communities: The Clinical Context The Importance of Interactions: Interaction Ritual Theory Ingredients and Outcomes of Rituals Methodology Everyday Rituals: Meal Times Everyday Rituals: Grocery Shopping The Importance of Interaction Rituals Conclusion References The Dementia Experience: Sociological Observations on the Construction of Cognition in Care Homes A Brief History of Dementia Personhood in Dementia Dementia and Personhood in Care Homes Ethnographic Explorations of Practice The Practice Settings: Forest Lodge and Richardson's Forest Lodge Richardson's Results: Institutional Logics of Institutional Care Story 1: Promoting Personhood Story 2: Assuming Impairment Logics of Dementia and Personhood Conclusion References "The Will's There and the Skill's There": Prison Mental Healthcare Overarching PhD Service Setting Analytical Themes and Findings Working with Patients/Prisoners at the Healthcare Centre Working with Patients/Prisoners with Mental Illness The Working Environment at the Healthcare Centre Communication and Co-operation Amongst NHS Staff Overarching Goal for the NHS Staff Enacting NHS Change in the Prison Setting 'Did Not Attend' as an Issue for NHS Services Old Guard Versus New Guard Conclusions Implications for Understanding Mental Health Services References Institutional and Emotion Work in Forensic Psychiatry: Detachment and Desensitisation The Institution of Forensic Psychiatry Responsibility Role Context The Organisation of High Security Hospitals Institutions, Organisations and Actors Institutional Theory Institutional Work Emotion Work Applying Institutional and Emotion Work Theories Interviews, Ethics and Analytic Processes Field Notes, Reflections and Observations Actors' Roles and Experiences Isolation Physical Isolation Emotional Isolation Emotional Isolation: Work and Colleagues Emotional Isolation: Family and Friends Formal and Informal Roles Formal Roles Informal Roles Containing Emotions in Contained Places Heightened Emotions Emotional Blunting Physical and Emotional Toll Institutional Maintenance, Reinforcement and Reproduction Implications for the Relationship between Psychiatry and Social Sciences References Community Mental Health Teams: Interacting Groups of Citizen-Agent?Service Setting: Community Mental Health Teams "Specialised" Community Mental Health Teams: The Evidence The Work of Community Mental Health Teams Team Processes Community Mental Health Practitioners' Reflections on Their Work Practitioner Roles Flexibility Boundaries Team Membership Risk Other Teams Manager Speaking Paperwork Corporate Pressures Doctors and Others Clients' or Service Users' Experiences Safe Accepted Understood Discussion Relationship, Relationship, Relationship The In-group and the Out-group Institutional Setting References Handling Role Boundaries: A Basic Social Process Underpinning DecisionMaking in Mental Health Teams Background Why Conceptualisation Is Important in this Area Grounded Theory Methodology Findings Discussion Handling Role Boundaries Identity, Self, Interaction and Role Theory The Implications of Handling Role Boundaries Conclusions References Mental Health Uncertainty and Inevitability Uncertainty and Inevitability Inevitability of the Social Uncertainty of Social Agent Action Inevitability of Identity Work Uncertainty of Illness Experience Conclusion References

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