This article casts a critical eye over the development of American psychiatry from 1980 to the
present. It notes the rapid decline of psychoanalysis that followed the publication of DSM III; …

With the advent of community psychiatry, the pressure of care of the mentally ill will
increasingly fall on the family and the community. In order for this transition to succeed, it is …

Versão atualizada da edição espanhola, apresenta e analisa alguns dos mais significativos
processos de transformação internacionais em saúde mental, entre os quais está o …

The authors present the findings from a long-term follow-up study of 118 patients from
Vermont State Hospital who, when rediagnosed retrospectively, met DSM-lll criteria for …

The chapter addresses the stigma associated with mental illnesses. It begins by
summarizing the development of thinking about labeling and stigma over the past half …

Notes that there has been a great deal of speculation that mentally ill persons are being
processed through the criminal justice system rather than the mental health system. To date …

Social Order/Mental Disorder represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social
response to madness in England and the United States from the eighteenth through the …

This article draws upon an extensive case management literature in order to integrate a
number of key concepts and findings that must be considered by those responsible for the …

This highly successful reader presents the interactionist approach to the study of deviance,
examining deviance as a phenomenon that is constituted through social interpretations and …

• A cost-benefit analysis should be seen not as a mechanism for deciding mechanically on
the allocation of funds and resources among programs but as a structure for weighing …