Madness and coping

Armstrong, David

doi:10.1111/1467-9566.ep11340701

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“…Under Crichton‐Miller, the Tavistock Clinic aimed at a unified psychosomatic approach to diagnosis and treatment (Armstrong ). Hinshelwood writes that ‘Bion arrived at the Tavistock during a time when a certain psycho‐physical integration was probably still a prevalent idea’ (, p. 46).…”

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Jung's psychoid concept and Bion's proto‐mental concept: a comparison

Addison¹

2016

J Analytical Psychology

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Jung and Bion both developed theoretical concepts propounding a deeply unknowable area of the psyche in which body and mind are undifferentiated and the individual has no distinct identity, from which a differentiated consciousness arises. In Jung's case, this is enshrined in his psychoid concept and the associated notion of synchronicity and, in Bion's case, in his proto-mental concept and his ideas on group dynamics. It is by means of these two concepts that Jung and Bion approach and locate a combined body-mind, a monism, in which body and mind are seen as different aspects of the same thing. This paper reviews the claim that although the two concepts are associated clinically with very different situations, their commonality may arise from a similar intellectual basis: both men appear to have been influenced by the same source of vitalist ideas in philosophy including Henri Bergson, and Jung's ideas also exerted a direct influence on Bion.

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Section: Influencesmentioning

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Jung's psychoid concept and Bion's proto‐mental concept: a comparison

Addison¹

2016

J Analytical Psychology

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“…By the post-war years, however, the main focus had shifted to the neuroses that involved identifying how patients coped with their emotions (Armstrong, 1980). Moreover, reflecting the shift from discrete pathology towards generalised risk factors, it was observed that these neuroses, in the form of anxiety and depression, were ubiquitous throughout society and individual biographies; and if the neuroses were everywhere then this further justified the surveillance of everyday functioning of the population.…”

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The invention of patient-centred medicine

Armstrong

2011

Soc Theory Health

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This article, based on a plenary presentation to the 13th biennial conference of the European Society for Health and Medical Sociology, challenges the implicit theme of the meeting, that radically changing societies have significant impacts on health and well-being. This analysis, it is argued, masks the fact that it is the ways in which we construe health and well-being that makes a major contribution to what we understand by 'radically changing societies' .

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“…Categories appear and disappear, boundaries between categories are redrawn, disorders are renamed and classified into new subtypes, and subtypes are arranged and rearranged into clusters. These processes are not necessarily based on scientific insights, but are embedded in socioeconomic change (Abbey & Garfinkel, 1991), political change (Skultans, 2003), changes in the perceived relationship between the individual and society (Armstrong, 1980), changes in the power relationships within the psychiatric profession (McPherson & Armstrong, 2006), and the introduction of new medications (Hirshbein, 2006;Skultans).…”

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Discourses of Depression of Australian General Practitioners Working With Gay Men

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The data for this article are from a primary health care project on HIV and depression, in which the prevalence, nature, clinical management, and self-management of depression among homosexually active men attending high-HIV-caseload general practice clinics were investigated. One of the qualitative arms consisted of in-depth interviews with general practitioners (GPs) with high caseloads of gay men. The approach to discourse analysis was informed by Halliday's systemic functional linguistics. GPs constructed three discourses of depression: engaging with psychiatric discourse, engaging with the patient's world, and engaging with social structures. When GPs drew on the discourse of psychiatry, this discourse was positioned as only one possible construction of depression. This discourse was also contextualized in the social lives of gay men, and it was explicitly challenged and rejected. Engaging with their patients' social world was considered vital for recognizing depression in gay men. Finally, the GPs' construction of depression was inextricably linked to social disadvantage and marginalization. Depression is highly heterogeneous and constructed in terms of social relationships rather than as an independent entity that resides in the individual. There is a synergy between GPs' constructions of depression and men's experiences of depression, which differs from conventional medical views, and which enables GPs to be highly effective in dealing with the mental health issues of their gay patients.

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Madness and coping

Abstract: This paper describes the disappearance of madness from medical discourse in the 20th century and the concomitant 'invention' of the neuroses.

Cited by 19 publications

References 30 publications

Jung's psychoid concept and Bion's proto‐mental concept: a comparison

Jung's psychoid concept and Bion's proto‐mental concept: a comparison

The invention of patient-centred medicine

Discourses of Depression of Australian General Practitioners Working With Gay Men

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