Explaining Mental Illness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4181019 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Morgan (0000-0001-9597-1800, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 262-280 |
| Publication date | 1975-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-9756 • E-ISSN: 1474-0583 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s000397560000494x |
| OpenAlex | W2143333611 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 22 |
Definitions of insanity and the treatment of those identified as mentally ill have been more obviously subject to changes in social values and ideas of individual responsibility than any other category of clinically recognised illness. These changes have exercised a significant influence upon the relationship of psychological to physical medicine and, inter alia, the status of psychiatry as a scientific and authoritative source of medical treatment and social labelling. The present trend towards the integration and expansion of psychiatry within general and community medicine has resulted in the increasing involvement of psychiatry in the problems of social life. A wide spectrum of deviant and socially disturbing behaviour, previously considered largely as legal or moral problems, is now seen and treated as a symptom of illness and explained in medical terms
Insanity · Mental health · Mental illness · Mentally ill · Physical illness · Psychiatry · Psychotherapist · Subject (documents) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychiatric care and mental health services · Psychology
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Society on the Edge
The mental health sector and the social sciences in post-World War II USA Part 2
The Influence of New Mental Health Legislation on the Criminal Justice System
The Politics of Thomas Szasz
Views of what's wrong
The social context of occupational stress in a caring profession
Relativism in the diagnosis of hypoglycemia
On Being Sane in Insane Places
Residual Deviance, Labelling, and the Mentally Sick Role
What is disease
The Psychological Meaning of Mental Illness in the Family
The psychiatrist and tests of criminal responsibility
Schizophrenic Women
Societal Reaction as an Explanation of Mental Illness
Medicine as an Institution of Social Control
Being Mentally Ill
The Primary Prevention of Mental Illness
African Traditional Thought and Western Science
The Societal Reaction to Deviance
Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 2020 (42) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |