1st Edition
Where Inner and Outer Worlds Meet Psychosocial Research in the Tradition of George W Brown
By Tirril Harris
Copyright 2000
344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
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The importance of George Brown's sustained contribution to medical sociology through his longitudinal studies of psychiatric disorder and its relationship to social context is widely recognised. This collection of seventeen chapters exemplifies a particular way of working as a medical sociologist which focuses on the understanding of the meaning of social experiences as the key to an individual's... Read more
1: Introduction to the work of George Brown; I: Social psychiatry and social science; 2: George W. Brown's contribution to psychiatry; 3: Bringing meaning back into social psychiatric research; 4: George W. Brown; II: Measurement of key psychosocial factors in research; 5: Lessons from using semistructured interviews with seriously ill patients; 6: Expressed emotion; 7: Contextual measures and subjective appraisal; III: Model building; 8: Negative life events and family negativity; 9: Towards a dynamic stress-vulnerability model of depression; 10: The timing of lives; 11: The childhood experience of care and abuse (CECA); 12: Gender differences in the experience and response to adversity; 13: The long-term effects of childhood adversities on depression and other psychiatric disorders; 14: Evolved socio-emotional systems and their role in depressive disorders; IV: Psychosocial factors in conditions other than depression; 15: Life stress and bipolar disorder; 16: The study of life events; V: Postscript; 17: Some thoughts on the future of social psychiatry
Biography
Tirril Harris
