Where Inner and Outer Worlds Meet: Psychosocial Research in the Tradition of George W Brown

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ISBN: 9780415202688 | 041520268X
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 1/22/2001

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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 recognized. This volume captures the essence of his way of working.

List of figures

viii

List of tables

List of contributors

Preface

xiv

Introduction to the work of George Brown

(52)

Tirril Harris

PART 1 Social psychiatry and social science

(26)

George Brown's contribution to psychiatry: the effort after meaning

(6)

Jim Birley

David Goldberg

Bringing meaning back into social psychiatric research: making subjective meanings objective

(10)

David Mechanic

George Brown: the science of meaning and the meaning of science

(8)

Paul Bebbington

PART 2 Measurement of key psychosocial factors in research

(42)

Lessons from using semi-structured interviews with seriously ill patients

(16)

Elizabeth Davies

Expressed emotion: measuring relationships

(14)

Julian Leff

Contextual measures and subjective appraisal

111

(10)

Louise Lemyre

PART 3 Model building

121

(140)

Negative life events and family negativity: accomplishments and challenges

123

(28)

Michael Rutter

Towards a dynamic stress-vulnerability model of depression: the role of neuroticism, life events and gender

151

(20)

Johan Ormel

Jan Neeleman

The timing of lives: loss events over the life course and the onset of depression

171

(24)

Paul Surtees

Nick Wainwright

The childhood experience of care and abuse (CECA): an exploration with adolescent refugees

195

(16)

Michel Tousignant

Emmanuel Habimana

Colette Biron

Esther Sidoli-Leblanc

Mathilde Brault

Gender differences in the experience and response to adversity

211

(16)

Tom Craig

Soumitra Pathare

The long-term effects of childhood adversities on depression and other psychiatric disorders

227

(18)

Ron Kessler

Evolved socio-emotional systems and their role in depressive disorders

245

(16)

Martin Eales

PART 4 Psychosocial factors in conditions other than depression

261

(28)

Life stress and bipolar disorder: is the dimension of social rhythm disruption specific to onset of manic episodes?

263

(12)

Ellen Frank

David Kupfer

Susan Malkoff-Schwartz

The study of life events has clarified the concept of psychosomatic disorders

275

(14)

Francis Creed

PART 5 Postscript

289

(30)

Some thoughts on the future of social psychiatry

291

(28)

George W. Brown

Index

319

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Where Inner and Outer Worlds Meet: Psychosocial Research in the Tradition of George W Brown

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