Society and Psychosis (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Morgan, Craig

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Psychiatry is in the process of rediscovering its roots. It seemed as if the long history of interest in the impact of society on the rates and course of serious mental illness had been forgotten, overtaken by the advances of neuroscience and genetics. However, as our knowledge of physiological and genetic processes improves it becomes increasingly clear that social conditions and experiences over the life course are crucial to achieving a full understanding. Old controversies are giving way to genuinely integrated models in which social, psychological and biological factors interact over time, culminating in the onset of psychosis. This book reviews these issues from an international perspective, laying the foundations for a new understanding of the psychotic disorders, with profound implications for health policy and clinical practice. It should be read by all members of the mental health team and those responsible for service organization and management.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511380730
• Artikelnr.: 38207765

Autorenporträt

Craig Morgan is Non-Clinical Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.
Kwame McKenzie is Professor of Mental Health and Society at the University of Central Lancashire and Senior Lecturer at University College, London.
Paul Fearon is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Section of Epidemiology and Social Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, London.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Craig Morgan, Kwame McKenzie and Paul Fearon; 2. Climate
change in psychiatry: periodic fluctuations or terminal trend? Julian Leff;
Part I. Theoretical and Conceptual Foundations: 3. Social science,
psychiatry and psychosis Craig Morgan; 4. Conceptualising the social world
Dana March, Craig Morgan, Michaeline Bresnahan and Ezra Susser; 5. Genes
and the social environment Jennifer H. Barnett and Peter B. Jones; Part II.
Social Factors and the Onset of Psychosis: 6. Society, place and space Jane
Boydell and Kwame McKenzie; 7. Childhood adversity and psychosis Helen
Fisher and Tom Craig; 8. Family environment and psychosis Pekka Tienari and
Karl-Erik Wahlberg; 9. Adult adversity: do early environment and genetic
risk create lasting vulnerabilities for adult social adversity in
psychosis? Inez Myin-Germeys and Jim van Os; 10. Migration, ethnicity and
psychosis Kwame McKenzie, Paul Fearon and Gerard Hutchinson; Part III.
Social Factors and the Outcome of Psychosis: 11. Social factors as a basis
for treatment Richard Warner; 12. Public attitudes, stigma and
discrimination against people with mental illness Graham Thornicroft, Aliya
Kassam and Michael King; 13. Outcomes elsewhere: course of psychosis in
'other cultures' Kim Hopper; Part IV. Models and Conclusions: 14. Theories
of cognition, emotion and the social world: missing links in psychosis Paul
Bebbington, David Fowler, Philippa Garety, Daniel Freeman and Elizabeth
Kuipers; 15. Society and psychosis: future directions and implications
Craig Morgan, Kwame McKenzie and Paul Fearon.