David's Box: The Journals and Letters of a Young Man Diagnosed as Schizophrenic 1960-1971
Book Details
- Publisher : Polpresa Press
- Published : 2011
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 272
- Category :
Clinical Psychology - Catalogue No : 32736
- ISBN 13 : 9780956097514
- ISBN 10 : 9780956097
Also by Richard Hallam
Individual Case Formulation
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These edited journals of a highly intelligent young man document in painstaking detail what it was like to be diagnosed with schizophrenia in the 1960s - the dehumanising attitudes, the inept prescription of drugs, and other shortcomings of mental health services. "David" eventually manages to sustain an unskilled job and move into a bedsitter but is now faced with goading from his fellow workers and social isolation. Giving up the job he hates and faced with a return to living in a half-way house, he calmly tells us why he made his final decision.
The journals give an insight into the experience of madness that no textbook or retrospective account could supply. David was a fly on his own wall, attempting all along to make sense of his life, but barely succeeding. His perceptive observations inform us of the dilemmas that continue to challenge mental health professionals, and 'service users' today. For this reason, the authors have added a chapter on the changes to mental health services since 1970 and evaluate what progress has been made.
About the Author(s)
Richard Hallam trained as a clinical psychologist and has combined university teaching and research with work in a variety of National Health Service settings. His main areas of interest are adult problems, hearing-related complaints, and case formulation. He has published several books, most recently Virtual Selves, Real Persons (2009) and Individual Case Formulation (2013). He now works as an independent researcher and in private practice.
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