1. The family, the asylum and community care -- 2. Observing the family -- 3. The complicated grief: 'living on the edge of the world' -- 4. The relationship with psychiatry and psychiatric knowledge -- 5. The moral construction of diagnosis: 'sickess made for anyone' -- 6. Coping with stigma: the significance of shame and identity -- 7. The myth of the family: 'love and all that business' -- 8. Managing myths: reaching new understandings -- 9. Concluding discussion: living with ambivalence -- Appendix A. The structure of interviews -- Appendix B. Details of identified patients (IP) and their families
