TY  - BOOK
AU  - Karp,David A.
TI  - The burden of sympathy: how families cope with mental illness 
SN  - 9780198028703
AV  - RC439.5 .K37 2002eb
U1  - 362.20422 22
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Mentally ill
KW  - Family relationships
KW  - Home care
KW  - Caregivers
KW  - Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale
KW  - Relations familiales
KW  - Soins à domicile
KW  - Aidants naturels
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY
KW  - Mental Health
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Mental Illness
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ONE: Illness and Obligation; TWO: Bearing Responsibility; THREE: Managing Emotions; FOUR: Family Ties; FIVE: The Four Cs; SIX: Surviving the System; SEVEN: Caring in Postmodern America; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX
N2  - In this vivid and thoughtful study, David Karp chronicles the experiences of the family members of the mentally ill, and how they draw "boundaries of sympathy" to avoid being engulfed by the day-to-day suffering of a loved one. Working from sixty extensive interviews, the author reveals striking similarities in the experiences of caregivers: the feelings of shame, fear, guilt and powerlessness in the face of a socially stigmatized illness; the frustration of navigating the complex network of bureaucracies that govern the mental health system; and most of all, the difficulty negotiati
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