Trusting on the edge : managing uncertainty and vulnerability in the midst of serious mental health problems

Includes Bibliographical references and Index

Introduction: Risk and trust in late-modern society; Investigating trust: some theoretical and methodological underpinnings; Constructing knowledge through social interactions: the role of interpersonal trust in negotiating negative institutional conceptions; Bridging uncertainty by constructing trust: the rationality of irrational approaches; Vulnerability and the 'will to trust'; The difficulties of trust-work within a paradigm of risk; Trusting on the edge: Iimplications for policy.

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