Being Mentally Ill: A Sociological Study
by Scheff,Thomas J.Edition: 3rd
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Pub. Date: 1999-12-31
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Author Biography
Thomas J. Scheff is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of Emotions, the Social Bond, and Human Reality; Bloody Revenge; Catharsis in Healing, Ritual, and Drama; and coauthor of Emotions and Violence.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction | |
| Biological Psychiatry and Labeling Theory | p. 3 |
| Effectiveness of Psychoactive Drugs | p. 6 |
| Placebo Reactions | p. 7 |
| Are Psychoactive Drugs Safe? | p. 8 |
| Challenging the Rule of Biopsychiatry | p. 10 |
| The Emotional/Relational World | p. 13 |
| Gove's Critique of the Labeling Theory of Mental Illness | p. 15 |
| Individual and Social Systems in Deviance | p. 17 |
| Theory | |
| Social Control as a System | p. 31 |
| Areas of Social Control | p. 40 |
| The Societal Reaction to Deviance | p. 45 |
| Conclusion | p. 50 |
| Residual Deviance | p. 53 |
| The Origins of Residual Rule-Breaking | p. 58 |
| Prevalence | p. 63 |
| The Duration and Consequences of Residual Rule-Breaking | p. 65 |
| The Social Institution of Insanity | p. 69 |
| Individual and Interpersonal Systems in Role-Playing | p. 70 |
| Learning and Maintaining Role Imagery | p. 74 |
| Normalization and Labeling | p. 84 |
| Acceptance of the Deviant Role | p. 86 |
| A Note on Feedback in Deviance-Amplifying Systems | p. 94 |
| Conclusion | p. 97 |
| The Power of the Psychiatrist | |
| Decisions in Medicine | p. 101 |
| Type 1 and Type 2 Errors | p. 103 |
| Decision Rules in Medicine | p. 104 |
| Basic Assumptions | p. 106 |
| The "Sick Role" | p. 108 |
| Implications for Research | p. 110 |
| Negotiating Reality: Notes on Power in the Assessment of Responsibility | p. 115 |
| The Process of Negotiation | p. 120 |
| A Contrasting Case | p. 123 |
| Discussion | p. 126 |
| Conclusion: Negotiation in Social Science Research | p. 130 |
| The Emotional/Relational World | |
| A Psychiatric Interview: Alienation between Patient and Psychiatrist | p. 135 |
| Social Action and Natural Language | p. 136 |
| Example of Interaction Ritual: The Opening Exchange in a Conversation | p. 139 |
| Embarrassment and Anger: The Feeling Trap of Shame-Rage | p. 141 |
| Interpretation and Context | p. 145 |
| Implicature, Context, and Social Structure | p. 152 |
| Labeling in the Family: Hidden Shame and Anger | p. 157 |
| Pride, Shame, and the Social Bond | p. 159 |
| A New Labeling Theory | p. 161 |
| Labeling in the Family: A Case Study (Based on Scheff 1989) | p. 161 |
| Labeling by Psychiatrists | p. 171 |
| Conclusion | p. 172 |
| Summary and Review | |
| Conclusion | p. 177 |
| Symptom, Context, and Meaning | p. 177 |
| Typification in Diagnosis | p. 182 |
| Mental Illness and Social Status | p. 188 |
| Implications of the Emotional/Relational World for Treatment and Research | p. 197 |
| Impact of the 1966 Edition on Legislative Change | p. 201 |
| References | p. 203 |
| Index | p. 213 |
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