382 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
381 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is the first examination in depth of the reasons and ways that people seek psychiatric help. Viewing contemporary metropolitan life from the standpoint of an experienced social analyst, Charles Kadushin deals with such issues as, why people believe they have emotional problems, what types of problems send them to psychiatrists, how, why, and by whom potential patients are told they are... Read more
I: The Study and the Cast of Characters; 1: The Decision to Go to a Psychiatrist; 2: Data-Collection in a Psychiatric Setting; 3: Therapists, Clinics, and Patients: The Organization of Outpatient Psychotherapy; 57: The Theory of Our Friends; II: The Realization of a Problem; 5: The Sociology of Presenting Problems; 6: Presenting Problems and Psychiatric Diagnoses; 7: The Effect of Sophistication, Training, and Social Reality on the Presentation of Self; III: Intermediate Steps in the Decision to Seek Therapy; 8: Free Advice; 9: False Starts: Previous Sources of Treatment; 10: From Bartenders to Psychiatrists: Images of the Professions; IV: The Decision to Go to a Clinic; 11: Searching for Information and Acquiring Knowledge; 12: Hopes and Money: Cognitions and Evaluations of Psychotherapy and Psychiatric Clinics; 13: Personal Influence and the Last Straw; V: Toward Better Community Mental-Health Programs; 14: Summary of Findings; Community Psychiatry and the Friends and Supporters of Psychotherapy: Some Recommendations for Action
Biography
George C. Galster
