Author: Dinesh Bhugra
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192527061
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Over the past fifty years we have seen an enormous demographic shift in the number of people migrating to urban areas, proliferated by factors such as industrialisation and globalisation. Urban migration has led to numerous societal stressors such as pollution, overcrowding, unemployment, and resource, which in turn has contributed to psychiatric disorders within urban spaces. Rates of mental illness, addictions, and violence are higher in urban areas and changes in social network systems and support have increased levels of social isolation and lack of social support. Part of the Oxford Cultural Psychiatry series, Urban Mental Health brings together international perspectives on urbanisation, its impacts on mental health, the nature of the built environment, and the dynamic nature of social engagement. Containing 24 chapters on key topics such as research challenges, adolescent mental health, and suicides in cities, this resource provides a refreshing look at the challenges faced by clinicians and mental health care professionals today. Emphasis is placed on findings from low- and middle-income countries where expansion is rapid and resources limited bridging the gap in research findings.
Urban Mental Health (Oxford Cultural Psychiatry series)
Author: Dinesh Bhugra
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192527061
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Over the past fifty years we have seen an enormous demographic shift in the number of people migrating to urban areas, proliferated by factors such as industrialisation and globalisation. Urban migration has led to numerous societal stressors such as pollution, overcrowding, unemployment, and resource, which in turn has contributed to psychiatric disorders within urban spaces. Rates of mental illness, addictions, and violence are higher in urban areas and changes in social network systems and support have increased levels of social isolation and lack of social support. Part of the Oxford Cultural Psychiatry series, Urban Mental Health brings together international perspectives on urbanisation, its impacts on mental health, the nature of the built environment, and the dynamic nature of social engagement. Containing 24 chapters on key topics such as research challenges, adolescent mental health, and suicides in cities, this resource provides a refreshing look at the challenges faced by clinicians and mental health care professionals today. Emphasis is placed on findings from low- and middle-income countries where expansion is rapid and resources limited bridging the gap in research findings.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192527061
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Over the past fifty years we have seen an enormous demographic shift in the number of people migrating to urban areas, proliferated by factors such as industrialisation and globalisation. Urban migration has led to numerous societal stressors such as pollution, overcrowding, unemployment, and resource, which in turn has contributed to psychiatric disorders within urban spaces. Rates of mental illness, addictions, and violence are higher in urban areas and changes in social network systems and support have increased levels of social isolation and lack of social support. Part of the Oxford Cultural Psychiatry series, Urban Mental Health brings together international perspectives on urbanisation, its impacts on mental health, the nature of the built environment, and the dynamic nature of social engagement. Containing 24 chapters on key topics such as research challenges, adolescent mental health, and suicides in cities, this resource provides a refreshing look at the challenges faced by clinicians and mental health care professionals today. Emphasis is placed on findings from low- and middle-income countries where expansion is rapid and resources limited bridging the gap in research findings.
The Mental Health of Urban America
Author: National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.). Program Analysis and Evaluation Branch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Insanity
Author: Susan Vaught
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1599907844
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
A spooky fantasy filled with terrifying ghost stories from a real-life asylum.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1599907844
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
A spooky fantasy filled with terrifying ghost stories from a real-life asylum.
The Age of Insanity
Author: John F. Schumaker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313075697
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The often misunderstood modern person syndrome is a disorder linked to the conditions of living in our contemporary society. The author argues that the conditions of modernity have introduced new processes, forces, and cultural motivations that have major implications for all aspects of mental health and social well being. While modernity offers unprecedented opportunities for personal enhancement and creative expression, there is mounting evidence of a mental health crisis that demands the immediate attention of mental health professionals. In order to address the new challenges that have arisen under conditions of modernity, mental health professionals must rethink fundamental assumptions about the relationship between society and mental health, as well as the impact of modern social concerns upon individual behavior and psychological well being. This innovative approach to mental health seeks to explain a variety of psychological trends, including the steep rise in depression, the sharp increase in the prevalence of existential disorders, and the emergence of consumption disorders. By shedding light on the interaction between modernity and mental health, Schumaker illuminates the emerging patterns of mental disturbance while also offering new and more effective intervention and prevention strategies.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313075697
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The often misunderstood modern person syndrome is a disorder linked to the conditions of living in our contemporary society. The author argues that the conditions of modernity have introduced new processes, forces, and cultural motivations that have major implications for all aspects of mental health and social well being. While modernity offers unprecedented opportunities for personal enhancement and creative expression, there is mounting evidence of a mental health crisis that demands the immediate attention of mental health professionals. In order to address the new challenges that have arisen under conditions of modernity, mental health professionals must rethink fundamental assumptions about the relationship between society and mental health, as well as the impact of modern social concerns upon individual behavior and psychological well being. This innovative approach to mental health seeks to explain a variety of psychological trends, including the steep rise in depression, the sharp increase in the prevalence of existential disorders, and the emergence of consumption disorders. By shedding light on the interaction between modernity and mental health, Schumaker illuminates the emerging patterns of mental disturbance while also offering new and more effective intervention and prevention strategies.
So Far Disordered in Mind
Author: Richard Wightman Fox
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520036536
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520036536
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Insanity, identity and empire
Author: Catharine Coleborne
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1784996092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This book examines the formation of colonial social identities inside the institutions for the insane in Australia and New Zealand. Taking a large sample of patient records, it pays particular attention to gender, ethnicity and class as categories of analysis, reminding us of the varied journeys of immigrants to the colonies and of how and where they stopped, for different reasons, inside the social institutions of the period. It is about their stories of mobility, how these were told and produced inside institutions for the insane, and how, in the telling, colonial identities were asserted and formed. Having engaged with the structural imperatives of empire and with the varied imperial meanings of gender, sexuality and medicine, historians have considered the movements of travellers, migrants, military bodies and medical personnel, and ‘transnational lives’. This book examines an empire-wide discourse of ‘madness’ as part of this inquiry.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1784996092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This book examines the formation of colonial social identities inside the institutions for the insane in Australia and New Zealand. Taking a large sample of patient records, it pays particular attention to gender, ethnicity and class as categories of analysis, reminding us of the varied journeys of immigrants to the colonies and of how and where they stopped, for different reasons, inside the social institutions of the period. It is about their stories of mobility, how these were told and produced inside institutions for the insane, and how, in the telling, colonial identities were asserted and formed. Having engaged with the structural imperatives of empire and with the varied imperial meanings of gender, sexuality and medicine, historians have considered the movements of travellers, migrants, military bodies and medical personnel, and ‘transnational lives’. This book examines an empire-wide discourse of ‘madness’ as part of this inquiry.
The American Journal of Insanity
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Insanity (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Includes section "Book reviews".
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insanity (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Includes section "Book reviews".
The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British and Continental Medicine, and of the Progess of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 918
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 918
Book Description
Mental Hygiene
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mental health
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mental health
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
Social Aspects of the Treatment of the Insane
Author: Jacob Alter Goldberg
Publisher: New York : Columbia university
ISBN:
Category : Insane
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Columbia university
ISBN:
Category : Insane
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description