A History of Male Psychological Disorders in Britain, 1945-1980, by Alison Haggett.Mental Health in Historical Perspective. Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan, 2015.215pp. ISBN 9781137448873 (hb) 9781137448880 (e-bk).

摘要

"Stiff upper lip". Clarified in the framework of socio-medical histories, this is the portraitof a well-informed critique on British psychological disorders, rooted in the cultural con-text of the 1950s through to the 1980s. Beyond addressing men's mental health, AlisonHaggett is adept in reading diverse controversial aspects of British modern life in the af-termath of the First and Second World Wars while re-telling unequivocal consequences ofthe industrial revolution. In so doing, she has successfully pulled together philosophical,medical, and psychological theories alongside clinicians' objective summaries of certaincase works-even after their retirement.