Society and psychosis
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2008.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Cambridge medicine (Series)
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009797970806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Categories and continua; Changing views of the epidemiology of schizophrenia; The aetiology of psychosis; Course and outcome of psychosis; Society and psychosis; Models and conclusions; REFERENCES; 2 Climate change in psychiatry: periodic fluctuations or terminal trend?; Introduction; Influences on research output; The rise of biological research; Searching for trends in the psychiatric literature (1) Method; Searching for trends in the psychiatric literature (2) Findings; Conclusions
- AcknowledgementREFERENCES; Part I Theoretical and conceptual foundations; 3 Social science, psychiatry and psychosis; 4 Conceptualising the social world; 5 Genes and the social environment; Part II Social factors and the onset of psychosis; 6 Society, place and space; 7 Childhood adversity and psychosis; 8 Family environment and psychosis; 9 Adult adversity: do early environment and genotype create lasting vulnerabilities for adult social adversity in psychosis?; 10 Migration, ethnicity and psychosis; Part III Social factors and the outcome of psychosis
- 11 Social factors as a basis for treatment12 Public attitudes, stigma and discrimination against people with mental illness; 13 Outcomes elsewhere: course of psychosis in 'other cultures'; Part IV Models and conclusions; 14 Theories of cognition, emotion and the social world: missing links in psychosis; 15 Society and psychosis: future directions and implications; Index
