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A History of Male Psychological Disorders in Britain, 1945–1980

Part of the Mental Health in Historical Perspective Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137448880

ISBN: 978-1-137-55626-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Feb 1, 2016

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Chapter 1Introduction

Haggett, Ali

Pages: 1 –20

[In a scene from an early episode of the popular American drama series Mad Men, the character Paul Kinsey warns: ‘A modern executive is a busy man. He leads a complicated life. He has family and leisure – and he’s supposed to keep all that straight.’1 The show follows the lives of a group of men...
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Chapter 2Psychological Illness and General Practice

Haggett, Ali

Pages: 21 –56

[At a meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine in November 1958, the psychiatrist Michael Shepherd and a group of colleagues observed that most of the previous work on the epidemiological aspects of mental disorder had been focused on institutionalised patients where the population had been...
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Chapter 3Mental Health at Work: Misconceptions and Missed Opportunities

Haggett, Ali

Pages: 57 –81

[In 1942, the Medical Research Council’s Industrial Health Research Board initiated an investigation, led by Dr Russell Fraser and Dr Elizabeth Bunbury, into neurotic illness as a cause of absence from work. Prompted by concerns about industrial efficiency during wartime, the research focused on...
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Chapter 4Men, Alcohol and Coping

Haggett, Ali

Pages: 82 –98

[Lord Stephen Taylor of Harlow, speaking in the House of Lords in 1965, recalled that he once knew a French GP who was ‘much mystified by the English disease of the “nervous breakdown”’. The friend had observed: ‘We do not have this in France. En France c’est l’alcoholisme (In France it is...
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Chapter 5Pharmacological Solutions

Haggett, Ali

Pages: 99 –122

[In a lengthy and well-cited article published in the Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 1971, Peter Parish, physician and medical sociologist at University College Swansea, stated that as a result of advances in psychopharmacology and the influences of advertising, ‘large...
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Chapter 6Special Cases: Sick Doctors and Ethnic Presentations of Psychological Illness

Haggett, Ali

Pages: 123 –143

[By the 1980s, two particular concerns had begun to catch the attention of those interested in mental health. The first was the realisation that medical professionals (and GPs in particular) appeared to be particularly vulnerable to mental ill health and addiction to drugs and alcohol. The second...
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Chapter 7Conclusion

Haggett, Ali

Pages: 144 –151

[Julian Tudor Hart, a retired GP, widely respected for his contribution to general practice and epidemiological research, recaptured his memories of ‘going to the doctor’ in a paper published in an edited collection in 2000. Drawing upon a lifetime of experience, he emphasised the importance of...

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