TY - CHAP AU - Haggett, Ali AB - Statistically, women appear to suffer more frequently from depressive and anxiety disorders, featuring more regularly in primary care figures for consultations, diagnoses and prescriptions for psychotropic medication. This has been consistently so throughout the post-war period with current figures suggesting that women are approximately twice more likely to suffer from affective disorders than men. However, this book suggests that the statistical landscape reveals only part of the story. Currently, 75 per cent of suicides are among men, and this trend can also be traced back historically to data that suggests this has been the case since the beginning of the twentieth-century. This book suggests that male psychological illness was in fact no less common, but that it emerged in complex ways and was understood differently in response to prevailing cultural and medical forces. The book explores a host of medical, cultural and social factors that raise important questions about historical and current perceptions of gender and mental illness. ID - OAPEN ID: 1000123 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1076680223 ID - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29826 KW - anxiety disorders KW - depressive disorders KW - affective disorders KW - male psychological illness KW - gender KW - mental illness L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29826/1/Pharmacological%20Solutions%20-%20A%20History%20of%20Male%20Psychological%20Disorders%20in%20Britain%2c%201945%e2%80%931980%20-%20NCBI%20Bookshelf.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29826/1/Pharmacological%20Solutions%20-%20A%20History%20of%20Male%20Psychological%20Disorders%20in%20Britain%2c%201945%e2%80%931980%20-%20NCBI%20Bookshelf.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29826/1/Pharmacological%20Solutions%20-%20A%20History%20of%20Male%20Psychological%20Disorders%20in%20Britain%2c%201945%e2%80%931980%20-%20NCBI%20Bookshelf.pdf LA - English LK - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26941 PB - Springer Nature PP - Basingstoke PY - 2015 TI - Chapter 4 Pharmacological Solutionsnull ER -