Society and psychosis /

"This book reviews 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 will be of interest to academics, researchers, clinicians and all those who work with pe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Morgan, Craig, McKenzie, Kwame, Fearon, Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Temas:
Psychoses > Social aspects.
Psychoses.
Social ecology.
Psychotic Disorders
Social Environment
Psychoses > Aspect social.
Écologie sociale.
human ecology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Health.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
Social ecology
Psychoses
Psychoses > Social aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Climate change in psychiatry: periodic fluctuations or terminal trend?
  • Theoretical and conceptual foundations
  • Social science, psychiatry and psychosis
  • Conceptualising the social world
  • Genes and the social environment
  • Social factors and the onset of psychosis
  • Society, place and space
  • Childhood adversity and psychosis
  • Family environment and psychosis
  • Adjunct adversity: do early environment and genotype create lasting vulnerabilities for adult social adversity in psychosis?
  • Migration, ethnicity and psychosis
  • Social factors and the outcome of psychosis
  • Social factors as a basis for treatment
  • Public attitudes, stigma and discrimination against people with mental illness
  • Outcomes elsewhere: course of psychosis in other cultures
  • Models and conclusions
  • Theories of cognition, emotion and the social world: missing links in psychosis
  • Society and psychosis: future directions and implications.

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