The Oxford Textbook of Social Psychiatry serves as a comprehensive reference to the historical, theoretical, and practical aspects of social psychiatry, and its role in the management of psychiatric disorders. Written and edited by leading experts and rising stars in the field of social psychiatry, this textbook provides an authoritative and global look at social psychiatry, covering a wealth of topics and up-to-date research in 79
chapters.Divided into eight sections, this resource covers an overview of the history and development of social psychiatry, as well as the social world of families, culture, and identity, focusing on key issues
such as globalisation, pandemics, trauma, spirituality, and gender. Clinical conditions and special vulnerable groups are also explored, with topics such as the mental health of prisoners, somatisation, and eating disorders. Case studies of specific geographical locations provide a critical overview of global mental health today and the challenges faced in different setting, such as low- and middle-income countries.
The Oxford Textbook of Social Psychiatry serves as a comprehensive reference to the historical, theoretical, and practical aspects of social psychiatry, and its role in the management of psychiatric disorders. Written and edited by leading experts and rising stars in the field of social psychiatry, this textbook provides an authoritative and global look at social psychiatry, covering a wealth of topics and up-to-date research in 79
chapters.Divided into eight sections, this resource covers an overview of the history and development of social psychiatry, as well as the social world of families, culture, and identity, focusing on key issues
such as globalisation, pandemics, trauma, spirituality, and gender. Clinical conditions and special vulnerable groups are also explored, with topics such as the mental health of prisoners, somatisation, and eating disorders. Case studies of specific geographical locations provide a critical overview of global mental health today and the challenges faced in different setting, such as low- and middle-income countries.
Section 1: HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT
1: Paul Bebbington and Elizabeth Kuipers: Historical
development
2: Antonio Ventriglio, Rajiv Wijesuriya, and Dinesh Bhugra: All
psychiatry is social
3: Peter Tyrer: Categories and their implications
4: Moritz E. Wigand and Thomas Becker: Social constructs and
diagnostic perspectives
5: Gianluigi Campanile, Giuseppe Fanelli, Chiara Fabbri, Alessandro
Serretti, and Julien Mendlewicz: Epi-genetics and aetiology of
mental illness
6: Dinesh Bhugra, Max Pemberton, and Sam N. Gnanapragasam:
Sociology and social psychiatry
7: James V. Lucey and Colman Noctor: The Contemporary Dynamics of
the Social Relationship: the interface between social media and the
human psyche in the maintenance of our mental wellbeing
8: Jack Hubbett: Anthropology and social psychiatry
Section 2: SOCIAL WORLD
9: Tom J. Craig: Social epidemiology
10: Cameron Watson, Rajiv Wijesuriya, and Dinesh Bhugra: Culture
and mental illness
11: John W Berry: Culture and identity
12: Vishal Bhavsar: Globalisation and social psychiatry
13: Dan Poulter, Antonio Ventrigilo, and Sam N. Gnanapragasam:
Disasters, Emergencies and Social Psychiatry
14: Koravangattu Valsraj, Albert Persaud, Max Pemberton, and Vishal
Bhavsar: Geopsychiatry and social psychiatry
15: Kimia Ziafat, Jean N. Westenberg, and R. Michael Krausz:
Psychiatry in the time of pandemic
16: Cameron Watson, Rajiv Wijesuriya, and Dinesh Bhugra: Migrants,
migration and social psychiatry
17: Sam N. Gnanapragasam, Max Pemberton, and Dinesh Bhugra: Social
Psychiatry and refugees and asylum seekers
18: Chad Beyer and Dan J Stein: Trauma and Resilience
19: Alice B. Roberts, Neil P. Roberts, and Jonathan I. Bisson:
Impact of trauma
20: Ruth Bell and Michael Marmot: Social determinants
21: Debanjan Banerjee and Prama Bhattacharya: Revisiting the "gap":
Intersections of health inequality, poverty and psychological
wellbeing
22: Jerzy Eisenberg-Guyot and Seth J. Prins: The Impact of
Capitalism on Mental Health: An Epidemiological Perspective
Section 3: PERSONAL WORLD
23: Federico Zanca, Edoardo Caporusso, Giulia Maria Giordano, and
Silvana Galderisi: Gender
24: Cameron Watson, Daniel Poulter, Antonio Ventriglio, and Dinesh
Bhugra: Masculinity, male roles, mental illnesses and social
psychiatry
25: Peter J. Verhagen: Spirituality and resilience
26: Bino Thomas and Tony Sam George: Families and psychiatric
disorders
27: Soumitra Pathare and Arjun Kapoor: Discrimination and
stigma
28: Oyedeji A Ayonrinde and Nomusa Mngoma: Poverty and social
psychiatry
29: Jed Boardman and Tom J. Craig: Unemployment and work
30: Keith Hariman: Social media
31: Reinhard M Krausz, Kiana Kianpoor, Kerry Jang, and D Vigo:
Urbanization as the new framework for psychiatry
32: João Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia, Antonio Ventriglio, and Dinesh
Bhugra: Homelessness and mental health
33: Martin Rotenberg and Kwame McKenzie: Social Capital
34: Reinhard M Krausz, A. Kazemi, S. Bacinschi, and M. Kamel: The
web and its impact on mental health care
Section 4: CLINICAL CONDITIONS & SPECIAL GROUPS
35: Tom J. Craig: Psychosis: Consequence and cause of fractured
personal relationships?
36: Matcheri S. Keshavan and Jaya Padmanabhan: Schizophrenia
37: Manamohan Nataraj, Chaitra Nagaraj Kumble, Sundarnag Ganjekar,
and Geetha Desai: Common mental disorders
38: Antonio Ventriglio, João Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia, Julio
Torales, Egor Chumakov, and Domenico De Berardis: Social aspects of
depression
39: William H Orme, Christopher J Fowler, and John M Oldham:
Personality disorders
40: Shamil Wanigaratne, Luke Mitcheson, and Robert Hill: Social
psychiatry and addictions
41: Dasha Nicholls and Lidushi Nagularaj: Eating disorders
42: Melanie Palmer and Stephen Scott: Social determinants of child
psychopathology
43: Nhi-Ha T. Trinh, Bridget Wallace, Richard Bernard-Negron, and
Iqbal "Ike" Ahmed: Late life disorders: Sociocultural Factors and
the Mental Health of Elders
44: Urvakhsh Meherwan Mehta and Santosh K Chaturvedi: Somatisation:
medically unexplained symptoms
45: Deepthi Satheesa Varma, Prerna Kukreti, and Prabha S. Chandra:
Social & cultural factors in perinatal mental health
46: Diego de Leo and Andrea Vieccelli Giannotti: A contemporary
view of Suicide
47: Harjit Bagga and Gurvinder Kalra: Sexual diversity
48: Howard Ryland: Mental illness in prisoners
49: Amala Jovia Maria Jesu, Satheesh Kumar Gangadharan, Sabyasachi
Bhaumik, and Regi T Alexander: Intellectual disability
50: Miia Männikkö and Mari Helin: Mental illness in the family: the
view of a family member
Section 5: SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS
51: Jonathan Campion: Public mental health
52: Catrin Lewis and Jonathan I. Bisson: Psychological first
aid
53: Wendy Burn: Social prescribing
54: Brendan D. Kelly: Social interventions in common mental
disorders
55: Keith Hariman: Digital Interventions for mental health
56: Alice Barbara Debelle and Nisha Dogra: Managing children and
young people
57: Laurie Hare-Duke, Fiona Ng, and Mike Slade: Recovery and the
mental health system
58: Keith Hariman: Tele-mental health
59: Ursula Werneke: Psychopharmacology and social factors
60: Ekaterina Sukhanova: Leisure Activities: Art in the Healing
Process
61: Raghu Raghavan, Brian Brown, Jonathan Coope, and Muthusamy
Sivakami: Resilience, mental health and migration
62: Kaustubh Joag, Jasmine Kalha, Laura Shields-Zeeman, Sonali
Kumar, and Soumitra Pathare: Atmiyata - a community led
intervention for common mental disorders in rural India
63: Adalberto Barreto, Henriqueta Camarotti, and Nicole Hugon:
Integrative community therapy: The power of sharing in
communities
64: Ben Wright: Lessons from the English Improving Access to
Psychological Therapies Programme (IAPT) in delivering primary care
psychotherapy
Section 6: CHALLENGES IN POLICY
65: Tom J. Craig and Jane McCarthy: Deinstitutionalisation in the
United Kingdom
66: Pierluigi Lanzotti, Ilaria De Luca, and Luigi Janiri: The
De-Institutionalisation of the Mentally Ill: Lessons from Italy
67: Andrew Molodynski: Coercion in community mental health care
68: Brendan D. Kelly: Mental health legislation and social
rights
69: Soumitra Pathare and Arjun Kapoor: Human rights, UN convention
on rights of persons with disabilities and psychiatry - on a
collision course?
Section 7: MENTAL HEALTH ACROSS THE GLOBE
70: Mirella Ruggeri and Alessandra Martinelli: Challenges to mental
health in Europe
71: Dusica Lecic-Tosevski and Maja Milosavljevic: Mental Health
Care in Eastern Europe and the Balkans
72: Akin Ojagbemi and Oye Gureje: Mental health in low- and
middle-income countries
73: Raghu Raghavan, Brian Brown, and Nadia Svirydzenka: Mental
health literacy in low- and middle-income countries
74: Diego Asturias Fernández, Daniel Poulter, and Sam N.
Gnanapragasam: Psychological treatments in low- and middle-income
countries
75: João Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia: Mental health in Latin
America
76: Tarek Okasha: Mental Health in the Middle East
77: David Ndetei, Victoria Mutiso, Christine Musyimi, Rita Alietsi,
and Frida Kameti: Mental health in Africa - the case study of
Kenya
Section 8: FUTURE
78: Saeed Ahmed and Shahana Ayub: Training in social psychiatry
79: Dinesh Bhugra, Driss Moussaoui, and Tom J. Craig: Conclusions
Professor Dinesh Bhugra, Past- President, Royal College of
Psychiatrists (2008-2011), World Psychiatric Association
(2014-2017), British Medical Association (2018-2019), and Professor
Emeritus of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity, Kings College
London. He has published widely with several books winning awards
and going into multiple editions and translated into Japanese and
Mandarin. His Oxford Textbook for Public Mental Health won BMA Book
of the Year award in
2019 and Practical Cultural Psychiatry was highly recommended.
Editor of the International Journal of Social Psychiatry and
International Review of Psychiatry. He is also on the board of
several
charities and chairs DocHealth charity.
Professor Driss Moussaoui is Professor Emeritus at Ibn Rushd
University Psychiatric Centre, Casablanca, Morocco. Professor Tom J
Craig, Emeritus Professor of Social Psychiatry King's College
London and Past President World Association of Social Psychiatry
(2013-16). He qualified in medicine at the University of the West
Indies and trained in psychiatry in Nottingham, UK. Appointed as
Professor of Community Psychiatry in 1990 with his clinical base in
the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. His
research focuses on developing and evaluating community-based
psychiatric services including residential alternatives to the
hospital asylum, specialised services for homeless mentally ill
people,
services for first episode psychosis, and psychosocial
interventions including computer-based AVATAR therapy for auditory
hallucinations.
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