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1 online resource (ix, 442 pages) diagrams, tables |
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Scope and methods -- Social setting -- Social status and psychiatric illness -- Class status and treatment -- Discussion and application |
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This is the final report of one part of a research project carried out by a team of social scientists and psychiatrists which examined the interrelations between social stratification and mental illness in an urbanized community centered in New Haven, Connecticut. The research reported here focused on two questions: Is mental illness related to social class? Does a mentally ill patient's position in the status system affect how he is treated for his illness? To answer these questions the authors studied the social structure of the community, the psychiatric patients in treatment, the institutions where they are cared for, and the psychiatrists treating them. Successive chapters tell the story of how members of the community became patients, how they and their families responded to psychiatric intervention, and the effects of social class on patients and therapists. The book ends with some recommendations on what our society could do about improving socially determined shortcomings of psychiatric practice. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved) |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| In |
PsycBOOKS (EBSCO). EBSCO |
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Mental illness.
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Social classes.
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Social psychology.
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Psychology, Social
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Mental Disorders
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Social Class
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mental disorders.
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social classes.
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social psychology.
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Social psychology
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Mental illness
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Social classes
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Sociale klassen.
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Psychische stoornissen.
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Classes sociales -- Santé et hygiène -- Enquêtes.
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Maladies mentales -- Aspect social.
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Anthropologie médicale -- États-Unis -- Enquêtes.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Redlich, Fredrick C. (Fredrick Carl), 1910-2004.
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