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Reason, emotion and embodiment: is 'mental' health a contradiction in terms?

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UNSPECIFIED (2000) Reason, emotion and embodiment: is 'mental' health a contradiction in terms? SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS, 22 (5). pp. 559-581.

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Abstract

Taking as its starting point a series of traditional divisions and debates, this paper approaches issues of 'mental' health through the specific lens of the emotions. Key themes and organising principles here include the following: (i) reason versus emotion (ii) biology versus society (iii) the micro and the macro divide, and finally (iv) the medicalisation-demedicalisation of society. Each of these divisions is critically assessed and some 'new' ways forward provided through a commitment to the emotions, their relationship to 'mental' health and to rationality and, more generally, to their 'fate' in late 20th century Western society. The paper concludes with some further reflections on these and related emotional health matters, including a critique of the very notion of 'mental' health as a contradiction in terms.

Item Type: Journal Item
Subjects: R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
H Social Sciences
H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Journal or Publication Title: SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS
Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBL LTD
ISSN: 0141-9889
Official Date: September 2000
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September 2000UNSPECIFIED
Volume: 22
Number: 5
Number of Pages: 23
Page Range: pp. 559-581
Publication Status: Published

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