A history of self-harm in Britain [Elektronisk resurs] a genealogy of cutting and overdosing / Chris Millard.

• This book is open access under a CC BY license. Introduction: Self-Harm From Social Setting To Neurobiology 1. Early Twentieth-Century Self-Harm: Cut Throats, General And Mental Medicine 2. Communicative Self-Damage: War, NHS And Social Work 3. Self-Harm Becomes Epidemic: Mental Health (1959) And Suicide (1961) Acts 4. Self-Harm As A Result Of Domestic Distress 5. Self-Harm As Self-Cutting: Inpatients And Internal Tension Conclusion: The Politics Of Self-Harm: Social Setting And Self-Regulation.

• This book is open access under a CC BY license and charts the rise and fall of various self-harming behaviours in twentieth-century Britain. It puts self-cutting and overdosing into historical perspective, linking them to the huge changes that occur in mental and physical healthcare, social work and wider politics. -- This book is open access under a CC BY license and is the first account of self-harming behaviour in its proper historical and political context. The rise of self-cutting and overdosing in the 20th century is linked to the sweeping changes in mental and physical health, and wider political context. The welfare state, social work, Second World War, closure of the asylums, even the legalization of suicide, are all implicated in the prominence of self harm in Britain. The rise of 'overdosing as a cry for help' is linked to the integration of mental and physical healthcare, the NHS, and the change in the law on suicide and attempted suicide. The shift from overdosing to self-cutting as the most prominent 'self-damaging' behaviour is also explained, linked to changes in hospital organization and the wider rise of neoliberal politics. Appreciation of history and politics is vital to understanding the psychological concerns over these self-harming behaviours. 
• "This is a brave and provocative book. By narrating the complex history of self-harm in the decades after the Second World War, Chris Millard achieves far more than simply illuminating what has become a prominent mental health issue for modern populations. He also encourages us to rethink how we conceive and write history and how we might better understand and question current political preferences for individualised, rather than social, explanations of mental distress. With a distinctive authorial voice, Millard's work provides a constructive model for the next generation of social historians of psychiatry." - Mark Jackson, University of Exeter, UK 'Through a focus on Britain between the 1940s to the 1980s, Millard reveals how the self-harm subject was always more than a product of disembodied psychological and psychiatric theory and practice; it was inextricably a constructed part of changing social, political and ideological times. He thus defies the reigning ahistoricity and naturalization of the subject in its historiography, as well as challenges the current historically transcendent neurobiological constructions of self-harm. Acute and committed, this is critical history at its most productive.' - Roger Cooter, Warwick University, UK. 

Ämnesord

Self-injurious behavior.  (LCSH)

Self-mutilation  -- History -- 20th century -- Great Britain. (LCSH)

History.  (ukslc)

Social & cultural history  -- United Kingdom, Great Britain. (thema)

Illness & addiction: social aspects  -- United Kingdom, Great Britain. (thema)

Care of the mentally ill  -- United Kingdom, Great Britain. (thema)

European history  -- United Kingdom, Great Britain. (thema)

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