ABSTRACT

Responding to Men in Crisis is based on new research looking at gendered assumptions about rationality and men's mental health. It looks at postmodern theory in relation to masculinities and madness, and discusses key contemporary debates in political uses of risk, dangerousness and so on. The author relates this to a discussion of current policy and practice responses to men within the mental health system. It offers the reader a theoretical exploration of a topically and politically sensitive issues and is relevant to service user involvement and survivor movements, making it essential reading for academics and students of sociology and allied disciplines.

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Part I Introduction

chapter |1 pages

My present moment

chapter 1|18 pages

Approaching the politics of complexity

chapter |2 pages

Disturbing normalities

chapter |2 pages

The making of a ‘soft man’

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Part II Four biographical sketches

part |2 pages

Part III Some contemporary debates

chapter |1 pages

A moment of recognition

chapter |2 pages

A complicated bereavement?

chapter 10|22 pages

Reconstructing men’s lives