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Principles of Social Psychiatry - Hardcover

 
9780632033362: Principles of Social Psychiatry
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0632033363 ISBN 13: 9780632033362
Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 1993

Synopsis

Social psychiatry has the widest perspective of all branches of psychiatry, examining not only the social and environmental causes of mental illness, but also its social consequences. The move towards care in the community in the last two decades has led to a greater emphasis on social factors in the treatment and rehabilitation of the psychiatric patient. This new book provides a broad overview of current thinking in this expanding field and will be a source of ideas both in research and for the management of mental illness. Professor Julian Leff is the Director of the Social Psychiatry Unit at the Institute of Psychiatry in London and is well known internationally for his work on the families of schizophrenic patients

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Social psychiatry has the widest perspective of all branches of psychiatry, examining not only the social and environmental causes of mental illness, but also its social consequences. The move towards care in the community in the last two decades has led to a greater emphasis on social factors in the treatment and rehabilitation of the psychiatric patient. This new book provides a broad overview of current thinking in this expanding field and will be a source of ideas both in research and for the management of mental illness. Professor Julian Leff is the Director of the Social Psychiatry Unit at the Institute of Psychiatry in London and is well known internationally for his work on the families of schizophrenic patients.

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Publisher
Wiley–Blackwell
Publication date
1993
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0632033363
ISBN 13 
9780632033362
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
600
Editor
Bhugra Dinesh, Leff J. P.