Chapter 13: Sociological understandings of mental health
1. Name one of the so-called antipsychiatrists of the 1960s and 1970s.
Answer: R.D. (Ronnie) Laing, Thomas Szasz, Erving Goffman, David Cooper, Aaron Esterson, Michel Foucault
2. What is one use for the term ‘mental health’?
Answer: A positive state of mental wellbeing; a prefix for services; a prefix for problems
3. What did Peter Sedgwick want people with an interest in mental health to do?
Answer: Form cross-sectional political alliances
4. Which school of sociological thought is Erving Goffman most closely associated with?
Answer: Symbolic interactionism
5. Who is the economist who paved the way for introduction of the IAPT programme?
6. What do sociologists call the state of affairs when an institution or group loses public faith and confidence?
Answer: Legitimacy crisis
7. What did Peter Sedgwick argue was a useful function of the term ‘mental illness’?
Answer: It can help people make a legitimate claim on resources and support
