David Smail
Biographic Data
| ID | 318237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Smail |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Smail |
| SIGNATURE | SMAIL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Thornbury Hospital |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Taking Care
Taking Care established the author as an important social and political analyst whose background happened to be in clinical psychology. In this work the author develops the analysis of mental illness, and psychology in general, in the contexts of society, power and interest. People's experience is embodied in the world in which they exist. Notwithstanding the claims of some, psychology cannot, in the same way that magic cannot, change the nature …
The rocky path from clinical to community psychology – A personal view
Social therapy
De‐psychologizing community psychology
Despite their welcome emphasis on the influence of environmental factors on the generation of distress, and on the central role in this of power, the contributors to this special issue still seem unable entirely to avoid ‘psychologizing’ the processes involved. It is suggested that a far more radical rejection of ‘interior’ psychological and moral concepts (e.g. ‘self-esteem’, ‘responsibility’) could be undertaken without our having to abandon th…
De‐psychologizing community psychology
Despite their welcome emphasis on the influence of environmental factors on the generation of distress, and on the central role in this of power, the contributors to this special issue still seem unable entirely to avoid ‘psychologizing’ the processes involved. It is suggested that a far more radical rejection of ‘interior’ psychological and moral concepts (e.g. ‘self‐esteem’, ‘responsibility’) could be undertaken without our having to abandon th…
The influence of power on psychological functioning
The influence of power on psychological functioning
Power‐mapping—I. Background and basic methodology
Clinical and community psychology have yet to work out the full implications of taking seriously the structuring by power of the individual's social environment. Even the factor of social class has received little more than superficial attention. Some suggestions are offered as to why this might be so, and a theoretical framework for understanding psychological distress strictly as the result of the operation of social power is developed. A simpl…
Power-mapping—I. Background and basic methodology
Clinical and community psychology have yet to work out the full implications of taking seriously the structuring by power of the individual's social environment. Even the factor of social class has received little more than superficial attention. Some suggestions are offered as to why this might be so, and a theoretical framework for understanding psychological distress strictly as the result of the operation of social power is developed. A simpl…
Power-mapping—II. Practical application
Some of the problems associated with the phenomena of child sexual abuse (CSA) are considered from the perspective of the ‘terrain of power’ (see Hagan and Smail, 1997) in which individuals are located, and the use of power-mapping is exemplified by means of a single-case study. Group work with survivors of CSA currently being developed in Sheffield is described, throwing into relief the way in which the misuse of power, both past and present, is…
Power and the origins of unhappiness
Evidence that the ‘ultimate repressed’ in our understanding of emotional distress is power can be gleaned even from Freud's writing. This is a form of repression which community psychology is well placed to lift. Impossible though it is to stand outside the ‘apparatus of power’ (and, therefore to give a complete analysis of it), we cannot achieve an accurate account of the causes of human unhappiness without taking its operations into account as …
Postscript to community psychology and politics
Community psychology and politics
If community psychology is to profit from its experience to develop an accurate and consistent theory of the effect on individuals of societal pressures, it will need to review reflexively its own position in relation to politics and empowerment. Despite an inspirational and at times positively grandiose rhetoric, psychologists are in fact in no particularly powerful position to influence the factors which cause personal distress, and should not,…
A grid measure of empathy in a therapeutic group
Statistical prediction and ‘cookbooks’
The Treatment of Mental Illness
The effects of personality and training on attitudes to treatment
Attitudes of psychiatric patients to staff roles and treatment methods in mental hospitals
Attitudes of psychiatric nurses to their role in treatment
The place of conscious experience in clinical and medical psychology
Attitudes of psychiatrists to staff roles and treatment methods
Attitudes to treatment of medical staff in therapeutic communities
A multiple‐choice version of the TAT as a measure of aggression in psychiatric patients
De‐psychologizing community psychology
Despite their welcome emphasis on the influence of environmental factors on the generation of distress, and on the central role in this of power, the contributors to this special issue still seem unable entirely to avoid ‘psychologizing’ the processes involved. It is suggested that a far more radical rejection of ‘interior’ psychological and moral concepts (e.g. ‘self‐esteem’, ‘responsibility’) could be undertaken without our having to abandon th…
Community psychology and politics
If community psychology is to profit from its experience to develop an accurate and consistent theory of the effect on individuals of societal pressures, it will need to review reflexively its own position in relation to politics and empowerment. Despite an inspirational and at times positively grandiose rhetoric, psychologists are in fact in no particularly powerful position to influence the factors which cause personal distress, and should not,…
Power and the origins of unhappiness
Evidence that the ‘ultimate repressed’ in our understanding of emotional distress is power can be gleaned even from Freud's writing. This is a form of repression which community psychology is well placed to lift. Impossible though it is to stand outside the ‘apparatus of power’ (and, therefore to give a complete analysis of it), we cannot achieve an accurate account of the causes of human unhappiness without taking its operations into account as …
Attitudes of psychiatric nurses to their role in treatment
Attitudes to treatment of medical staff in therapeutic communities
A multiple‐choice version of the TAT as a measure of aggression in psychiatric patients
Attitudes of psychiatrists to staff roles and treatment methods
Attitudes of psychiatric patients to staff roles and treatment methods in mental hospitals
Attitudes of psychiatric nurses to their role in treatment
The place of conscious experience in clinical and medical psychology
The effects of personality and training on attitudes to treatment
The Treatment of Mental Illness
Statistical prediction and ‘cookbooks’
A grid measure of empathy in a therapeutic group
Postscript to community psychology and politics
Community psychology and politics
If community psychology is to profit from its experience to develop an accurate and consistent theory of the effect on individuals of societal pressures, it will need to review reflexively its own position in relation to politics and empowerment. Despite an inspirational and at times positively grandiose rhetoric, psychologists are in fact in no particularly powerful position to influence the factors which cause personal distress, and should not,…
Power and the origins of unhappiness
Evidence that the ‘ultimate repressed’ in our understanding of emotional distress is power can be gleaned even from Freud's writing. This is a form of repression which community psychology is well placed to lift. Impossible though it is to stand outside the ‘apparatus of power’ (and, therefore to give a complete analysis of it), we cannot achieve an accurate account of the causes of human unhappiness without taking its operations into account as …
Power‐mapping—I. Background and basic methodology
Clinical and community psychology have yet to work out the full implications of taking seriously the structuring by power of the individual's social environment. Even the factor of social class has received little more than superficial attention. Some suggestions are offered as to why this might be so, and a theoretical framework for understanding psychological distress strictly as the result of the operation of social power is developed. A simpl…
Power-mapping—I. Background and basic methodology
Clinical and community psychology have yet to work out the full implications of taking seriously the structuring by power of the individual's social environment. Even the factor of social class has received little more than superficial attention. Some suggestions are offered as to why this might be so, and a theoretical framework for understanding psychological distress strictly as the result of the operation of social power is developed. A simpl…
Power-mapping—II. Practical application
Some of the problems associated with the phenomena of child sexual abuse (CSA) are considered from the perspective of the ‘terrain of power’ (see Hagan and Smail, 1997) in which individuals are located, and the use of power-mapping is exemplified by means of a single-case study. Group work with survivors of CSA currently being developed in Sheffield is described, throwing into relief the way in which the misuse of power, both past and present, is…
The influence of power on psychological functioning
The influence of power on psychological functioning
Social therapy
De‐psychologizing community psychology
Despite their welcome emphasis on the influence of environmental factors on the generation of distress, and on the central role in this of power, the contributors to this special issue still seem unable entirely to avoid ‘psychologizing’ the processes involved. It is suggested that a far more radical rejection of ‘interior’ psychological and moral concepts (e.g. ‘self-esteem’, ‘responsibility’) could be undertaken without our having to abandon th…
De‐psychologizing community psychology
Despite their welcome emphasis on the influence of environmental factors on the generation of distress, and on the central role in this of power, the contributors to this special issue still seem unable entirely to avoid ‘psychologizing’ the processes involved. It is suggested that a far more radical rejection of ‘interior’ psychological and moral concepts (e.g. ‘self‐esteem’, ‘responsibility’) could be undertaken without our having to abandon th…
The rocky path from clinical to community psychology – A personal view
Taking Care
Taking Care established the author as an important social and political analyst whose background happened to be in clinical psychology. In this work the author develops the analysis of mental illness, and psychology in general, in the contexts of society, power and interest. People's experience is embodied in the world in which they exist. Notwithstanding the claims of some, psychology cannot, in the same way that magic cannot, change the nature …
Psychology (21 works) · Computer Science (16 works) · Library science (13 works) · Community Health and Development (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Citation (9 works) · Power (physics (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Medicine (8 works)