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An Introduction to Social Psychiatry

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This book describes the body of knowledge that has amassed regarding social influences on mental health. It gives an account of the methods used to collect data and to measure mental illness and its epidemiology, investigates how primary care physicians diagnose and treat mental disorders,
and explores the methods being used to prevent mental illness. In the final chapter the author assesses the future of social psychiatry and its relation to other branches of the discipline.

232 pages, Hardcover

First published October 20, 1988

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