Urbanicity has long been associated with stress, anxiety, and mental disorders. A new field
of neurourbanism addresses these issues, applying neuroscience laboratory methods to …

Trauma-informed approaches emerged partly in response to research demonstrating that
trauma is widespread across society, that it is highly correlated with mental health and that …

The dominant view within mental health services and research suggests that feeling
depressed is a kind of medical illness, partially caused by various biological deficits which …

This article summarizes the results of a recently published project to develop a conceptual
system incorporating social, psychological, and biological factors as an alternative to …

How do we understand mental health problems in their social context? A former BMA
Medical Book of the Year award winner, this book provides a sociological analysis of major …

This is the first dedicated text to explain and explore the utility of critical realism for
psychologists, offering it as a helpful middle ground between positivism and postmodernism …

Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949) has been described as' the most original figure in
American psychiatry'. Challenging Freud's psychosexual theory, Sullivan founded the …

This paper examines the mental health impacts of poor quality private-rented housing in the
north of England during the UK's first COVID-19 lockdown. The paper draws on data …

This paper discusses why and how the operation of power is a central part of the Power
Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF). Following a brief review of evidence linking social …

How intimate partner violence (IPV) is conceptualized affects what we see when we look at
situations involving IPV and what we think the solutions to the problem of IPV are—either in …