Trusting on the edge Managing Uncertainty Vulnerability in Midst of Serious Mental Health

"An important analysis of trust in relation to mental health care, showing clearly how an instrumentalised focus on "risk" is in crucial respects antithetical to a personal focus required to build trust; and that how well trust is established at one level in an organisation strongly influences its development at others."--George Szmukler, King"s College London "The issue of trust is at the heart of contemporary health care. This timely study focuses on how trust functions in the mental health arena where service users and those delegated to care for them have to deal with uncertainty and vulnerability on a daily basis. It provides some fascinating insights into the salience of trust in this context and makes an important theoretical contribution to the literature. The implications for policy and practice are also clearly stated." Jonathan Gabe, Royal Holloway, University of London "The authors have made a useful contribution to the health policy literature." --Sociology of Health and Illness