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| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Family, the Asylum and Community Care | p. 11 |
| Observing the Family | p. 23 |
| The Complicated Grief: 'Living on the edge of the world' | p. 37 |
| The Relationship with Psychiatry and Psychiatric Knowledge | p. 55 |
| The Moral Construction of Diagnosis: 'Sickness made for anyone' | p. 71 |
| Coping with Stigma: the Significance of Shame and Identity | p. 92 |
| The Myth of the Family: 'Love and all that business' | p. 116 |
| Managing Myths: Reaching New Understandings | p. 135 |
| Concluding Discussion: Living with Ambivalence | p. 154 |
| The Structure of the Interviews | p. 168 |
| Details of Identified Patients (IP) and their Families | p. 171 |
| References | p. 173 |
| Subject Index | p. 191 |
| Author Index | p. 196 |
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