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Mental Health and Human Rights

Mental Health and Human Rights Vision, praxis, and courage

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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 9780199213962
  • Published In: June 2012
  • Format: Hardback , 736 pages
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  • Presents a comprehensive and compelling review of mental health and human rights, shining a light on some of the appalling abuses still taking place today, and looking at how we can resolve some of these problems
  • Provides a truly international perspective, with chapters written by a team of authors experienced in dealing with, and facing some of the most challenging abuses of human rights throughout the world

Mental disorders are ubiquitous, profoundly disabling and people suffering from them frequently endure the worst conditions of life. 

In recent decades both mental health and human rights have emerged as areas of practice, inquiry, national policy-making and shared international concern. Human-rights monitoring and reporting are core features of public administration in most countries, and human rights law has burgeoned. Mental health also enjoys a new dignity in scholarship, international discussions and programs, mass-media coverage and political debate. Today's experts insist that it impacts on every aspect of health and human well-being, and so becomes essential to achieving human rights. 

It is remarkable however that the struggle for human rights over the past two centuries largely bypassed the plight of those with mental disabilities. Mental health is frequently absent from routine health and social policy-making and research, and from many global health initiatives, for example, the Millenium Development Goals. Yet the impact of mental disorder is profound, not least when combined with poverty, mass trauma and social disruption, as in many poorer countries. Stigma is widespread and mental disorders frequently go unnoticed and untreated. Even in settings where mental health has attracted attention and services have undergone reform, resources are typically scarce, inequitably distributed, and inefficiently deployed. Social inclusion of those with psychosocial disabilities languishes as a distant ideal. 

In practice, therefore, the international community still tends to prioritise human rights while largely ignoring mental health, which remains in the shadow of physical-health programs. Yet not only do persons with mental disorders suffer deprivations of human rights but violations of human rights are now recognized as a major cause of mental disorder - a pattern that indicates how inextricably linked are the two domains.

This volume offers the first attempt at a comprehensive survey of the key aspects of this interrelationship. It examines the crucial relationships and histories of mental health and human rights, and their interconnections with law, culture, ethnicity, class, economics, neuro-biology, and stigma. It investigates the responsibilities of states in securing the rights of those with mental disabilities, the predicaments of vulnerable groups, and the challenge of promoting and protecting mental health. In this wide-ranging analysis, many themes recur - for example, the enormous mental health burdens caused by war and social conflicts; the need to include mental-health interventions in humanitarian programs in a manner that does not undermine traditional healing and recovery processes of indigenous peoples; and the imperative to reduce gender-based violence and inequities. It particularly focuses on the first-person narratives of mental-health consumers, their families and carers, the collective voices that invite a major shift in vision and praxis. 

The book will be valuable for mental-health and helping professionals, lawyers, philosophers, human-rights workers and their organisations, the UN and other international agencies, social scientists, representatives of government, teachers, religious professionals, researchers, and policy-makers. 

Readership: Mental-health professionals, lawyers, philosophers, human-rights workers, and their organisations, for example, the UN and other international agencies.

Semyon Gluzman: A personal testament
Part 1: Overarching Conceptual Issues
1: Winton Higgins: Human rights development: provenance, ambit and effect
2: Charles Watters: Mental health and illness as human rights issues: philosophical, historical and social perspectives and controversies
3: Michael L Perlin and Eva Szeli.: Mental health law and human rights: evolution and contemporary challenges
4: Laurence Kirmayer: Culture and context in human rights
5: Jennifer Randall, Graham Thornicroft, Elaine Brohan, Aliya Kassam, Elanor Lewis-Holmes, and Nisha Mehta: Stigma and discrimination: critical human rights issues for mental health
6: Alexander McFarlane and Richard Bryant: Genes, Biology, Mental Health and Human Rights. The Effects of Traumatic Stress as a Case Example
7: Tristan McGeorge and Dinesh Bhugra: Race Equality and Mental Health
8: Roshni Mangalore, Martin Knapp and David McDaid: Mental health economics, mental health policies and human rights
9: Catherine Esposito and Daniel Tarantola: HIV, mental health, and human rights
10: Amita Dhanda: Universal Legal Capacity as a Universal Human Right
Eugene Brody: Commentary 1: Thinking about human rights: a personal perspective
Ezra Susser and Mich Bresnahan: Commentary 2: Global mental health and social justice
Part 2: Human Rights Abuses, Psychiatry, Nation States, and Markets
Introduction: Human Rights Abuses, Mental Health, Nation States, and Markets
11: Michael Dudley and Fran Gale: Through a glass, darkly: Nazi Era Illuminations of Psychiatry, Human Rights, and Rights Violations
12: Robert van Voren: The abuse of psychiatry for political purposes
13: Derrick Silove, Susan Rees, and Zachary Steel: Descent into the Dark Ages: Torture in its Perceived Legitimacy in Contemporaru Times
14: Jim Welsh: Medicine, mental health and capital punishment
15: Danny Sullivan and Paul Mullen: Mental health and human rights in secure settings
16: Alan Rosen, Tully Miller Rosen, and Patrick McGorry: The rights of people with severe and persistent mental illness
17: Jonathan H. Marks: Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape: A Framework Proposal for the Comprehension and Prevention of Health Professionals' Complicity in Detainee Abuse
Commentary 3: Coercive treatment in psychiatry: a human rights issue?Thomas Kallert: 
18: Philip Mitchell: Psychiatrists and the pharmaceutical industry - on the ethics of a complex relationship
Commentary 4: Protecting the human rights of people with mental disorders: a call to action for global mental healthVikram Patel, Arthur Kleinman, and Benedetto Saraceno: 
Commentary 5: Detained,Diagnosed, and Discharged: Human Rights and the Lived Experience of Mental Illness in New South Wales, AustrailiaMeg Smith: 
Part 3: Some Vulnerable Groups
Introduction: Some Vulnerable Groups: 
19: Zachary Steel, Catherine R. Bateman Steel, and Derrick Silove: Civilian Populations Affected By Conflict Displacement: Mental Health and the Human Rights Imperative
21: Beverley: Human rights and women's mental health
Raphael, Carol Nadelson, Melanie Taylor, and Jennifer Jacobs
22: Kathleen Maltzahn and Louella Villadiego: Trafficking, mental health and human rights
23: Sahika Yuksel, Dilek Cindoglu, and Ufuk Sezgin: Women's Bodies, Sexualities, and Human Rights
24: Ernest Hunter, Helen Milroy, Ngiare Brown, and Tom Calma: Human rights, health, and indigenous Austrailians
25: Ian Hall and Evan Yacoub: Human rights for people with intellectual disabilities
26: Missing Voices: Speaking up for the rights of
children and adolescents with disabilitiesMyron Belfer: 
and Diana Samarasan
27: Carmelle Peisah, Henry Brodaty, and Nick O'Neill: The mental health and rights of mentally ill older people
28: Louise Newman: Sex and Gender: Biology, Culture, and the Expression of Gender
29: Adrian Carter and Wayne Hall: The rights of individuals treated for drug addiction
Commentary 6:Lakshmi Vijayakumar and Lillian Craig Harris: The veil of silence: human rights and suicide
Part 4: Protection of mental health: current provisions and how they may be strengthened
Introduction: Protection of mental health: current provisions and how they
may be strengthened
30: Crick Lund, Tom Sutcliffe, Alan Flisher, and Dan J. Stein: : Protecting the rights of the mentally ill in poorly resourced settings: experiences from four African countries
31: Francois Crepeau and Anne-Claire Gayet: Human rights standards relevant to mental health and how they may be made more effective
32: John RM Copeland, Eugene Brody, Tony Fowke, Preston Garrison, and Janet Meagher: The role of world associations and the United Nations
33: David Oaks: Whose voices should be heard?: the role of mental health consumers, psychiatric survivors and families
Commentary 7: The Right to HealthGunilla Backman and Judith Bueno de Mesquita: 
34: Oliver Lewis and Nell Munro: The right to participation of people with mental disabilities in legal and policy reforms
35: Susan Rees and Derrick Silove: Human rights in the real world: exploring best practice research in a mental health context
36: Reflections from a mother-infant intervention: a
human rights based approach to research collaboration
Mark Tomlinson, Peter Cooper, Leslie Swartz, and Mireille
Landman
37: Peter Walker, Julia Shearsby and Zachary Steel: Can Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Act as a Human Rights Intervention for Consumers Experiencing Severe Mental Diorder?
38: Fran Gale and Michael Dudley: Promoting a just society and preventing human rights violations: a post-Nuremberg inheritance for the helping professions
Part 5: Towards the Future
Norman Sartorius: Afterword: Global mental health and human rights: barriers and opportunities
Author Index
Subject Index

Edited by Michael Dudley, Adolescent Service, Prince of Wales Hospital, Australia, Derrick Silove, Mental Health Centre, Liverpool Hospital, Australia, and Fran Gale, Political Science and Social Work, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Contributors: 
Professor Myron L. Belfer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, USA
Professor Dinesh Bhugra, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, UK
Professor Henry Brodaty, Primary Dementia Collaborative Research Centre, School of Psychiatry University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr Elaine Brohan, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK
Professor Ngiare Brown, Bullana, the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, University of Sydney, Australia
Professor Richard Bryant, School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Australia 
Dr Tom Calma, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Australia
Dr Adrian Carter, Queensland Brain Institute and the Department of Philosophy, The University of Queensland St Lucia, Australia 
Associate Professor Dilek Cindoglu, Bilkent University, Department of Political Science, Turkey 
Professor John R M Copeland, University of Liverpool, Department of Psychiatry, UK 
Professor Francois Crepeau, Faculty of Law, Université de Montréal, France
Professor Peter J Cooper, Winnicott Research Unit, School of Psychology, University of Reading, UK 
Professor Amita Dhanda, University of Law, Hyderabad, India. 
Dr Michael Dudley, Adolescent Service, Prince of Wales Hospital, Australia
Dr Catherine Esposito Annandale, Australia 
Professor Alan Flisher, University of Cape Town, South Africa 
Dr Fran Gale, University of Western Sydney, Australia 
Preston J. Garrison, World Federation for Mental Health, USA
Anne-Claire Gayet, Université de Montréal, France
Dr Ian Hall East London Foundation NHS Trust, Community Learning Disability Service, Mile End Hospital, UK 
Wayne Hall, School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Australia 
Winton Higgins, Institute for International Studies, University of Technology, Australia
Professor Ernest Hunter, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Australia
Professor Jon Jureidini, Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, Australia
Aliya Kassam, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK
Professor Laurence J. Kirmayer, Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, USA
Professor Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University, Department of Anthropology, U.S.A. 
Professor Martin Knapp, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Dr. Ann Law, Institute of Psychiatry, UK
Oliver Lewis, Mental Disability Advocacy Center, Hungary 
Ms. Elanor Lewis-Holmes, Institute Of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK 
Dr Crick Lund, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa 
David McDaid, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Professor A C McFarlane, School of Comparative American Studies, Department of History, University of Warwick, UK 
Dr Tristan McGeorge, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK
Professor Patrick McGorry, University of Melbourne Australia 
Kathleen Maltzahn, Project Respect, Australia 
Dr Roshni Mangalore, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Sarah Mares, Institute of Psychiatry, Australia
Professor Jonathan H. Marks, Bioethics and Medical Humanities Program, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Janet Meagher, Inclusion, Australia 
Professor Helen, Milroy Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health, The University of Western Australia, Australia 
Professor Philip Mitchell, Mood Disorders Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital, Australia 
Professor Paul E Mullen, Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health, Thomas Embling Hospital, Australia 
Professor Louise Newman, Monash University, Centre for Developmental Psychiatry & Psychology, Australia 
David Oaks, MindFreedom International, USA 
Professor Vikram Patel, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Professor Michael L. Perlin, Online Mental Disability Law Program, New York Law School, USA
Dr Jennifer Randall, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK
Professor Beverley Raphael, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Dr Susan Rees, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University Cairns, Australia. 
Associate Professor Alan Rosen, Royal North Shore Hospital and Community Mental Health Services, Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Sydney, Australia
Diana Samarasan, Disability Rights Fund, USA
Professor Benedetto Saraceno, Department of Psychiatry, University of Geneva, Switzerland 
Professor Norman Sartorius, University of Geneva, Switzerland 
Associate Professor Ufuk Sezgin, Istanbul University, Turkey 
Julia Shearsby 17 Booragul St, Beverly Hills, 2209 NSW. Australia 
Professor Derrick Silove, Psychiatry Research and Teaching Unit, Mental Health Centre, Liverpool Hospital, Australia 
Professor Meg Smith, School of Social Sciences, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Zachary Steel, Center for Population Mental Health Research, Australia
Professor Dan Stein, UCT Dept of Psychiatry, South Africa. 
Ezra Susser, Statistics and Epidemiology, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavior Studies, USA
Professor Daniel Tarantola, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Australia
Professor Graham Thornicroft, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK
Mark Tomlinson, Department of Psychology University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Robert van Voren, Global Initiative on Psychiatry, The Netherlands 
Dr Lakshmi Vijayakumar, Department of Psychiatry, Voluntary Health Services, India 
Dr Charles Watters, European Centre for the Study of Migration and Social Care, University of Kent, UK
James Welsh, Amnesty International International, UK
Dr Evan Yacoub, South West London and St George's NHS Trust, Springfield Hospital, UK 
Professor Dr. Sahika Yüksel, Department of Psychiatry Capa Istanbul University, Turkey

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